{"id":759,"date":"2011-06-29T21:09:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2011-06-29T21:09:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:09:10","slug":"bcswomen-my-brilliant-career-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"BCSWomen “My Brilliant Career” event"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n

Yesterday I was in London for a BCSWomen Committee meeting, followed by an\r\nevening workshop called “My Brilliant Career<\/i>“. It was a change from the\r\nnormal BCSWomen workshop format (talk, drinks & networking, talk, drinks\r\n& networking) as we started with a very hands-on workshop on career\r\nplanning from Christine Alexander Smith (who was high up in IBM and is now\r\nrunning http:\/\/www.diversity-coaching.info\/<\/a>)\r\n& Gillian Arnold (who was high up in IBM and is now running Tectre<\/a>). This workshop was great – properly\r\ninteractive, with NO POWERPOINT!!<\/b>. They got us to consider what we\r\nactually wanted from our careers and how we might go about getting there. As it\r\nwas a one-day workshop condensed into an hour it was hectic and intense – but\r\ngood fun, and seriously thought-provoking. We started with reflections on\r\ntimes when we were most proud of our work, and why, moving through what we\r\nthought we wanted (and whether that was really the case), to how we were going\r\nto get there. Gillian & Chrissie were excellent presenters and I’d\r\nrecommend them to anyone (they’ve run this course for big corporates, like EDF,\r\nso we were really lucky to get them to run it for us for free).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

We then (after drinks & networking, of course, we can’t completely\r\nchange our format:-) had a short talk from Sarah Winmill, CIO of the V&A<\/a>. Sarah’s talk was called “My Brilliant\r\nCareer<\/i>“, and covered working at the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Palaces,\r\nthe V&A, the Royal Academy of Arts and then the V&A again. There was a\r\nreal emphasis on transferable skills, and upon finding the right position for\r\nyou and going for it<\/i>. On the way it covered how to communicate techy\r\nstuff to people working in conservation, how to do networking when laying\r\nunderground cables requires an archaeological dig, and lots of cool (and less\r\ncool) photos. It was also very very funny indeed; if Sarah decides on a career\r\nchange which is unlikely, as her career is pretty much interstellar right now,\r\nshe could go into stand up. I’m absolutely chuffed to be able to announce that\r\nshe’s agreed to give the keynote at next year’s BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium,\r\ntoo.<\/p> \r\n\r\n

We finished with a panel session featuring all the earlier speakers plus\r\nFarrah Djohan from Google, taking careers-related questions from the\r\nattendees. We could have gone on for much longer – there was huge interest and\r\nthe event seemed to really engage the audience – but the BCS London offices\r\nneeded to close at 9pm so I had the difficult duty of drawing the proceedings\r\nto a close (and redirecting people to The Coal Hole pub across the road). All\r\nin all a top evening.<\/p> \r\n\r\n

Any BCS members who came along and who aren’t BCSWomen members should join\r\nup now, as it’s free; and anyone who’s interested in following what we’re up to\r\nbut who isn’t a BCS member can find us on twitter<\/a>,or facebook<\/a>. Our yahoo<\/a> and linkedin<\/a> groups are for members only, but the twitter and facebook\r\nare open to all. It’s worth adding that our events are also open to all – we\r\noften charge a few pounds more for non-BCSWomen members, but we’re not\r\nexclusive, and we even let men come along if they want to.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I was in London for a BCSWomen Committee meeting, followed by an evening workshop called “My Brilliant Career“. It was a change from the normal BCSWomen workshop format (talk, drinks & networking, talk, drinks & networking) as we started with a very hands-on workshop on career planning from Christine Alexander Smith (who was high up in IBM and is now running http:\/\/www.diversity-coaching.info\/) & Gillian Arnold (who was high up in IBM and is now running Tectre). This workshop was great – properly interactive, with NO POWERPOINT!!. They got us to consider what we actually wanted from our careers and how we might go aboutRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-wic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}