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Tech 101: Getting Started with Useful Links

Tech 101: Getting Started with Useful Links

Tech is a vast and fast-growing field, with a lot of opportunities for everyone who is looking to enter the field. If you're interested in getting into tech, here are some useful links you can take to increase your chances of success.  Get startedBlogs: Smashing...

Why Mistakes Are Important

Why Mistakes Are Important

Have you ever wanted to do something but were afraid of making mistakes? Have you ever made one? No one wants or likes to make them, but the truth is – they are inevitable and an important part of life. Let's start with a simple thought: people always make mistakes...

iMpact – Move technology with Migros

iMpact – Move technology with Migros

In June, we had the great opportunity to collaborate with Migros to organise an event with iMpact for women in tech with lots of career advice! It was an empowering and inspiring event for many of our members and employees of Migros. Many insights and tips have been...

FEM’TALK with our co-founder Priska

FEM’TALK with our co-founder Priska

Priska, our co-fonder, got recently invited by FEM'UP Switzerland to talk about her career and give her top three advices to inspire young women. FEM'UP is a network of diverse women from different industries and offer regular and interesting exchanges. They inspire...

Choose To Challenge – IWD21

Choose To Challenge – IWD21

This year's International Women's Day campaign theme is #ChooseToChallenge - a theme we from TechFace can only agree with! But what does it mean to choose to challenge? How can any bias and inequality be challenged? Who needs to challenge and how can each and every...

Choose To Challenge – IWD21

Choose To Challenge – IWD21

This year's International Women's Day campaign theme is #ChooseToChallenge - a theme we from TechFace can only agree with! But what does it mean to choose to challenge? How can any bias and inequality be challenged? Who needs to challenge and how can each and every...

F*ck being humble webinar Part III

F*ck being humble webinar Part III

Have you missed the three-part webinar by Stefanie Sword-Williams*, organized by our partner community Girls in Tech Switzerland, on making money, define your self-worth and value your work? Don’t worry, we got you! While we enjoyed Stefanie’s webinar live and had the...

F*ck being humble webinar Part II

F*ck being humble webinar Part II

Have you missed the three-part webinar by Stefanie Sword-Williams*, organized by our partner community Girls in Tech Switzerland, on how to stand out and have a brand? Then you are in for a treat today! While we enjoyed Stefanie’s webinar live and had the great...

F*ck being humble webinar Part I

F*ck being humble webinar Part I

Have you missed the three part webinar by Stefanie Sword-Williams*, organized by our partner community Girls in Tech Switzerland, on self-promotion and self-awareness? Then you are in for a treat today! While we enjoyed Stefanie’s webinar live and had the great...

Five Essential Tips to Apply for a Job in the Digital Age

Five Essential Tips to Apply for a Job in the Digital Age

In the last 2 months, our job hunt tips have fallen through. With the lockdown measures in place, recruiting changed from in person to online or was halted altogether. It was impossible to go out and network, meet people at events or join conferences in person. These...

Applying Leadership Skills To Your Next Career Step

Applying Leadership Skills To Your Next Career Step

During the current Covid-19 pandemic, several articles praising the leadership skills of people with different careers in economy and political areas are published. For example, Forbes has published an article on the countries led by women, who have shown so far the...

What it Means to Celebrate Women in STEM

What it Means to Celebrate Women in STEM

It’s no secret that long-standing biases and gender stereotypes have limited women and girls from pursuing their dreams and careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). And despite the advances, women continue to remain...

Six Tips to Achieve Your 2020 Goals

Six Tips to Achieve Your 2020 Goals

What are you ready for this year? What are you going to do to get what you want? Most of us have big ambitions for 2020 and our “why” for these ambitions is probably crystal clear. We know what we want to achieve and what we’re capable of - we’re inspired and ready to...

The Best Invitation You’ll Receive for an Amazing 2020

The Best Invitation You’ll Receive for an Amazing 2020

I recently came across a Facebook memory that had me reflecting on the passing of time, setting goals and celebrating victories. One word, that’s all I had written in the original post “6 years ago today” and with the emoji tag “feeling comfortable”. What life event...

Reinvent your career – A 6 ½ Step Guide

Reinvent your career – A 6 ½ Step Guide

We all know it. We scroll past motivational posts on Instagram reminding us every day that life is (too) short to do something that isn’t right for you anymore, that you’re bored of, or are simply no longer inspired by. (Do what makes you happy, anyone?) This is when...

Nail your next (job) interview

Nail your next (job) interview

Beginning of June, our partner organisation Girls in Tech Switzerland organised another career advising event. Christopher Lübbers shared his expertise, tips and insights around job interviews with us, have you missed it? Here is the good news! We consolidate the main...

Spring clean your skills

Spring clean your skills

Skills - the new gold of the future! Every company is in daring need of skills, especially in the digital area. Is the job you have applied for and started years ago still the same? Most probably not, a lot of tasks have changed and you were and are still required to...

Spring clean your LinkedIn profile

Spring clean your LinkedIn profile

According to different studies, more than 80% of recruiters are using LinkedIn to find talents. Even more recruiters and internal Talent Acquisition manager will use LinkedIn to validate your profile and find out more about you. Isn't it time to make sure your profile...

Spring clean your Google result

Spring clean your Google result

How often have you googled a person you meet, you worked with or came across their names? Equally often people might google you, specially recruiter want to find out more about you and will google your name. So first thing first; google yourself! What does your google...

Spring clean your inbox

Spring clean your inbox

Have you ever scrolled to the end of your inbox? I am sure you will find some emails at the very end you were never answering and they are no longer needed. The messiest thing in your life is probably your inbox, with lots of old and useless emails. So it is time to...

Spring clean your resume

Spring clean your resume

Like your wardrobe, your resume needs to be cleaned out once in a while. It not only helps you to be ready when the next opportunity comes along, it will clear your mind to plan the next career step! The best time to update your resume is actually when you are...

Goal #5: Filter advice from others

Goal #5: Filter advice from others

Guest blog by Diana Duque Most advice is delivered with good intentions — but it’s not always useful and better than to pile it up in your head, and sometimes add that to your insecurities, we should start sorting it out into what we take in consideration and what we...

Goal #4: Stop over apologizing

Goal #4: Stop over apologizing

Guest blog by Diana Duque We’ve all been or still are guilty of this, and here’s the thing — women tend to do this a lot. Here’s the gist: if you keep saying sorry for everything, you’re constantly taking blame onto yourself. Try this instead. If you can — if you...

Goal #3: Create a Highs and Lows List

Goal #3: Create a Highs and Lows List

Guest blog by Diana Duque This one could almost be a corollary of the previous goal but indulge us and make this a separate goal. It’s nearly impossible to adequately discuss everything that happened in the span of a year, so don’t even try. Instead, focus on...

Goal #2: Start prepping your performance review now

Goal #2: Start prepping your performance review now

Guest blog by Diana Duque So maybe you were just done with your performance review and won’t be having one for at least a year, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t start prepping right now, and by that, we mean doing all the leg work to ensure your next review will be...

Goal #1: Be the role model you wanted to have

Goal #1: Be the role model you wanted to have

Guest blog by Diana Duque This is not a hashtag or a meme you can just post using Beyoncé’s picture… High profile role models are important in helping women reach board level. Senior women demonstrate that there is no limit on what others can achieve at the company,...

2019, the year of the #Goaldigger

2019, the year of the #Goaldigger

Guest blog by Diana Duque Did you know that January 17th is known as the “Ditch New Year’s Resolution Day”? Well, if you haven’t already, maybe now it’s a good day to reevaluate the somewhat tipsy goals you made while you were partying and focus on actual goals that...

Ten reasons to disconnect this holiday

Ten reasons to disconnect this holiday

1. Taking time off makes you more productive Working 60-hour work weeks for 2 months causes a decrease in your productivity equivalent to working 40-hour weeks in the first place! It's just good sense to take it easy. 😇 2. Your brain has work to do when it's not...

Six women in tech who prove dream careers do come true

Six women in tech who prove dream careers do come true

You know, I've had conversations with people who challenge me when I say representation matters, role models matter. Spoiler alert: both were white guys from a privileged background. Representation matters. Why? (As if I needed to tell you...!) Because, when you see...

Setting career goals for 2019

Setting career goals for 2019

Hey friend! Grab a pen and paper for your first go at setting your 2019 career goals– this helps your stream of consciousness and allows you to get messy. In the last step we'll capture your goals and plans online where you can refer back to it. 1. Start early (start...

Avoid these 6 mistakes when job-hunting

Avoid these 6 mistakes when job-hunting

Written by Hela Maria Jaffar at our workshop on Finding your Unicorn Job. Hela is a blockchain and cryptocurrency expert, as well as a Director of Girls in Tech Switzerland. Six mistakes to avoid when searching for your unicorn job Mistake #1: Looking at job listings...

5 Tips to master a new skill

5 Tips to master a new skill

Even if you don’t know exactly what you’ll need to learn, you can’t go wrong cultivating a growth mindset and embracing the idea that you’ll have to learn something new or acquire new skills.  It doesn’t matter if you graduated from college last year or 10 years ago....

How to get paid your worth

How to get paid your worth

1. Do your research Salarium.ch has a "salary wizard" that allows users to enter a job category, experience and match it to a location. The wizard then generates a salary report with wage, bonus, and benefits information. If relocation is a possibility, spend some...

Four surprising ways AI will change our lives

Four surprising ways AI will change our lives

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is so hot right now! From a global wave of automation at every level of industry to a major skills gap driving huge demand for AI talent, businesses across sector lines must begin to develop their AI strategy – today. Here are some of the...

Four steps to learn to code

Four steps to learn to code

1. Learn with friends Learning anything is more fun with friends. Plus, it'll keep you accountable. We recommend you set up a recurring appointment to learn to code and do something fun. Code and brunch anyone? 2. Basics is enough You *do not* need to be a pro to make...

Future-proof your career: Blockchain

Future-proof your career: Blockchain

Where there is a lot of money, there will be a lot of Jobs. In 2017 alone, the market cap of all cryptocurrencies has increased over $180,000,000,000. There are so many blockchain companies dying for good help, and there aren’t many experienced people out there to...

Careers in Blockchain: our launch event

Careers in Blockchain: our launch event

At our launch event, blockchain companies pitched to candidates and candidates got 10 minutes to pitch their profile one-on-one with recruiters. Why? We want to make recruiting human again and we only work with companies who value the whole person over their CV. No...

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