Resources for Technology Professionals
Learning resources
- Returning to STEM: Free 8 week Open University course to help you to get back into STEM
- Reboot Your STEM Career: Interactive toolkit to help STEM professionals to relaunch their career after a break
Professional associations and networks
- BCS Women
- Tech London Advocates
- TechUK
- Equate Scotland – working for gender equality in SET and built environment
- Digital Women
- Women’s Engineering Society (WES)
- MentorSET – one-to-one mentoring for women in and returning to STEM fields, co-ordinated by WES
- SET Women
Specialist recruitment agencies
- Power to Fly – tech roles for remote working
Strategic Volunteering
- School Gate SET: volunteering opportunities for parents on career breaks to help with STEM in primary schools
Professional bodies with re-entry programmes
- Daphne Jackson Fellowships – Fellowships with mentoring and training to help people with STEM backgrounds to return after a career break
Success stories
- Returning to Cloud Services at AWS: Kseniya’s Story
- Returning to Technology at Reed Exhibitions: Mrinalini’s Story
- Returning to tech and ops at Capgemini: Geraldine’s Story
- Returning to tech at Capgemini: Sarah’s Story
- Returning to telecoms at O2: Clare’s Story
- Returning to mobile phone technology: Nina’s Story
- Returning to software development: M’s story
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