Career Club with Women Coding Community - Building a Career Development Plan

We are thrilled to announce that Women Coding Community is starting a Career Club - a community channel, where we are going to come together to discuss career-related topics including career development and progression. The objective of this is to help you with exploring, advancing and developing your career path and providing a platform to gain insights into different aspects of career building, share applicable tools and resources, and also network with like minded individuals!

Join us at our first session this September where we are going to dive into aspects of building a career development plan!

During this session our aim is to:

• Share insights about different aspects of career development plan
• Practice building a career development plan together
• Provide a safe space for asking questions and discussing any challenges
• Providing feedback and determine learning opportunities
• Encourage creativity, collaboration and knowledge share with others

Agenda:

• 19:00 - 19:10 - Welcome and Introduction to Women Coding Community
• 19:10 - 19:50 - Building a Career Development Plan - presentation and hands on practise
• 19:50 - 20:00 - Q&A

Speaker: Julia Babahina, Co-Founder / Director of Women Coding Community and a Lead Risk Management Specialist at Swift | LinkedIn
Julia is a Lead Risk Management Specialist at Swift for Product and Strategy with almost ten years of experience in Information Security, IT and Technology. Over the years she worked in numerous financial service organisations where she defined and delivered privacy and data programmes, cyber security and data strategies, policy frameworks and assisted organisations in governing IT risks and controls. She is dedicated to guiding businesses in delivering proportionate and risk aware IT response in line with business goals, compliance requirements and regulations. She is also a Directo at Women Coding Community and is passionate about giving back to community and empowering women to excel in technology careers.

Host: Irina Kamalova | LinkedIn
Irina is a Founder of Women Coding Community and a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Revolut. Her experience as a Software Engineer included working with large projects, search engines, distributed systems, performance issues, and huge data storage. She’s working at Revolut and building a platform for retail products. Irina mentoring mid-level engineers, constantly helps her team to tackle the extra mile and help the company to improve an intervening process, onboarding new hires, navigating interns and running knowledge-sharing activities. As a cherry on top, she helped to launch the inner Revolut Women Guild “RevWomen”.

About Women Coding Community
Empowering women in their tech careers through education, mentorship, community building, and career services is our mission. We provide workshops and events, connect members with industry mentors, foster a supportive community through meetups and conferences, and raise awareness for more inclusive industry practices.
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At Women Coding Community we are committed to a vibrant, supportive community. When attending our events, all members should follow our Code of Conduct. The full version can be found by following the link.