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  1. Save your seat in Remo: https://live.remo.co/e/growing-your-tech-career-part-2/register
  2. RSVP to this Meetup event.

** You'll need to RSVP for both platforms as Remo is the virtual networking and event platform where you'll interact via video with the speaker, Ambassadors, and other attendees. Meetup is where our MBWiTech members live and receive communications about our events.

Speaker: Tamara Olson
Manager - Talent Sourcing & Engagement - Digital Transformation & Cybersecurity with Online Business Systems

Theme:
This is part 2 of a 2 part series on how you can grow your career in tech.

Title:
Transferable Skills, Your Stepping Stones to the Future

Objectives:
To show Women how to interpret their transferable skills and use them as a stepping stones to a new career in Information Technology.

Who would benefit:
• Anyone who wants to learn how to move from one career to another utilizing their transferable skills.
• People interested in exploring how to integrate IT into their careers.
• Women looking to get in the awesome sector of IT.

Description:
It’s a fact that we have a shortage of Women in Information Technology roles in Canada and the World. We need to change this as quickly as we can. More Women are needed to fill the skills gap and bring a much needed dimension and unique approach to the work we do in I.T. We need to work hard as fellow women, and leaders to encourage our peers, teach our allies and make the changes necessary to meet the demand for IT professionals in the next decade. To achieve this goal, women need to understand how they can use their current skill set and advance into a new career. I focus on leveraging your current skills to move int an IT career and explain why IT is the place for women to be in the future.

Speaker bio:
Tamara Olson is the Talent Sourcing and Engagement Manager at Online Business Systems a Digital Transformation and Cyber Security consulting firm. Here she focuses on guiding a recruitment team while constantly applying new methods to find and hire the best and the brightest people from all over the world.
Starting her career over 25 years ago she’s learned what works and what doesn’t in the Recruitment world from, interviewing skills, resumes development, marketing campaigns, talent operations and innovation, building great teams, coaching, mentoring, and how to source exceptional talent.
Tamara works hard to create meaningful and long-lasting partnerships with everyone she meets and is passionate about diversity and women in technology. She’s never met a microphone she didn’t love and works hard via networking; panel discussions, presentations, and committee work to educate and entice underrepresented groups to step into the amazing world of I.T.
When Tamara isn’t working, she is spending time with her family, getting back to nature in her hometown of Kenora, Ontario on beautiful Lake of the Woods.

Event info:
We'll be using the virtual conference website, Remo, where you'll meet up to 6 people per table at a time, like how you would meet if you were at an in-person event. You'll have a bird's eye view of all the tables when you join the event, be able to see who is at each table, join the conversation with an easy double click, and then move from table to table to meet and chat with more people with another easy double click.
When it's time for Tamara to start her presentation, we'll send out a note to the floor with how long you'll have until her 15 to 20 minute discussion. During the presentation, we'll pause the table conversations and overlay her video screen so you can easily watch Tamara speak with us about job and negotiation strategies
After her presentation, we'll start up the table conversations again until we wrap up at 7pm. Tamara will be around before and after her presentation and would love to chat with you!
You’ll have another 15 minutes to wrap up your conversations and trade contact information with people you’d like to get in touch with.

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