Girls In Tech

Please join Girls-In-Tech for an evening of fabulous wine, keynote speakers,
and networking with the Bay Area’s top employers.
This event is an outstanding opportunity to connect with some of the Bay Area’s most accomplished leaders,
recruiters, and job seekers.

Register Now: http://gitajob2011.eventbrite.com/

Together, we’ll eat, drink and empower each other professionally and personally – providing an exclusive opportunity to join job seekers with outstanding employers, and learn insights from our keynote speakers about the job market today.

Companies attending the event will have access to the Girls-in-Tech membership and all resumes from event participants.

This event will sell-out and space is limited to the first 200 registrants. Early Bird registration is available for both job seekers and companies for a short time period. Once GIT publishes the finalized list of employer-attendees, prices WILL go up! Please note, without advanced tickets your resume will not be distributed to employers in advance of this event.

Speakers:
Rebecca Meissner, BranchOut

Rebecca Meissner is the Director of Enterprise Products at BranchOut, the largest professional networking application on Facebook.  In this role, Rebecca leads the product, design, and development teams building all BranchOut’s corporate offerings.  Prior to BranchOut, Rebecca worked as a Product Manager for Disney Interactive Media Group, an HR Business Partner for Playdom, and as a recruiter for a number of VCs, private equity firms, and large investment banking groups in San Francisco.  She has degrees from both Boston University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Olivia Watkins, Twitter

Olivia Watkins is a Technical Sourcer for Engineering at Twitter.

More Speakers TBA!! Stay Tuned!

Sponsors:
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Guidebook is the best and simplest way to create a mobile guide – Going mobile has never been this easy! Guidebook allows attendees to access your event’s entire schedule right from their mobile device. Plus, they’ll never miss a session, panel or activity with our easy-to-use mobile alerts. Guidebook, located in Palo Alto on California Avenue, is looking to add talented mobile developers to our team!

Special Thanks to Founders Den for hosting our event!

Founders Den is a shared office space and private club for experienced entrepreneurs and their friends. Founders Den’s unique approach combines a selectively curated startup community with a focus on experienced entrepreneurs and graduates of accelerator programs. Space at Founders Den is offered on an invite-only basis to startups referred through the networks of the Founders Den community. Founders Den also provides a home base for experienced entrepreneurs who are between projects.

May 24th, 2011
Founder’s Den http://www.foundersden.com
665 3rd, Suite 150
San Francisco, CA 94107
6:00-9:00 PM

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One of the most cutting-edge social businesses, The Extraordinaries, is searching for the perfect lead engineer. If you’re interested, you can find more information about this amazing opportunity below:

Be extra-extraordinary and join The Extraordinaries team!

HELP LAUNCH The Extraordinaries (VOLUNTEER)

We’re looking for folks to help us take The Extraordinaries to market on a volunteer basis.  If you”re excited about what we’re doing and have at least 5 hours a week to join our launch team, click here to tell us more about yourself: http://volunteer.BeExtra.org

HELP BUILD The Extraordinaries (PAID)

The positions below are paid positions and are based in San Francisco, CA.  If you don’t see a fit for your skills, you can still be extra-extraordinary by sharing this page with friends who you think might be a fit (short URL: http://bit.ly/3sLC0).

For all inquiries please email “hiring [at] beextra [dot] org” with a cover letter, resume and links to any relevant profiles (LinkedIn, etc.).  We very much look forward to hearing from you!

Wanted: Inspired Lead Engineer

As the Lead Engineer you will lead the effort to architect, develop, deploy, test, and monitor a cost-effective and sustainable platform for micro-volunteerism (no pressure . Strong organizational skills, incredible technical expertise, and ridiculous attention to detail are key in this mission critical role. The Extraordinaries is transforming the way people engage causes and organizations they support, and we’re looking for an Inspired Lead Engineer who wants to help build a platform for massive social good.

Tags: Adriana Gascoigne, girls in tech, Job, Lead Engineer, The Extraordinaries
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Just when it seems like the economy might be getting a little bit better, more people are getting laid off and less companies are hiring. This is disturbing especially since the government is focusing on shoring up the economy by bailing out big corporations and not by helping people keep their jobs. As confusing as that may be, we have to move onward and upward, and the best way to do that is by giving your knowledge a boost, diversifying your skill-set, making yourself indisposable and by focusing on a few key activities when you get laid off. The following article from Amateur Asset Allocator, documents “The 11 Things To Do Immediately When You Get Laid Off.” I think the points that this article makes are extremely valid and useful, so I’m not only forwarding this onto my friends that are currently unemployed, but also, I’m writing about it as a guide for Girls in Tech members. So here goes. You can read the whole article here: 

11 Things To Do Immediately When You Get Laid Off

1. Spruce Up Your Resume
2. Tell Everyone You’ve Ever Met, Immediately
3. Give Your Resume to Everyone, Even If  They Don’t Ask
4. Play The Lottery
5. Shore Up Your References
6. Stop Spending Money
7. Freelance
8. Get a Girlfriend/Boyfriend
9. Start Your Own Company
10. Go On Vacation
11. Update Your Profiles on Social Networking Sites (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.)

Actually, I have to add a twelfth point that when looking back at my career, I think is ultra important:

*Make yourself indisposable and your skill-set scarce. If your job doesn’t directly align, effect or impact a company’s bottom line (in a positive way) – change that. The only way an employee can keep a job these days is if she or he is creating, igniting or innovating a new way to make money and is core, I mean CORE to that company’s business strategy, including revenue, core product(s) or operations. Also, a person has to create scarcity around themselves and their skill-set. That is to say, she or he needs to stand out and become a thought leader at a company; create a reputation for being an expert, even better, THE expert or “Go-To” person representing a crucial part of a business and the operations and success of that business.

Tags: Adriana Gascoigne, Amateur Asset Allocator, Getting a job, girls in tech, Job, Laid off, San Francisco, technology, Unemployed, women in tech
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