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Planning Your Tech Career
Some people swear by vision boards. They love creating the visual representation around what their life will look like. There are even workshops focused on vision boards. I don’t have anything against vision boards, I just don’t personally use them. I mean not in the physical sense. Most physical things don’t drive me. I LOVE helping women, especially moms, get hired in tech. It absolutely drives me. It motivates me. It inspires me! So the envisioning I do is to think about shifting the statistic of 20% of women in tech to 60% of women in tech. I visually see that number shifting with moms moving from lack of confidence into confidence. From a skills gap to conquering the skills gap.
When helping moms gain the skills and confidence to get hired in tech, I encourage them to visualize their destination. I guess you can think about it like a mental vision board. It’s so hard to think about being hired in your tech dream job when you are learning a new skill or even interviewing. It’s all you can do to think about that part of the journey.
The best thing to do, though to keep moving forward is to visualize your goal every day. What will it be like to sit in that desk in that cool hipster office space? Or work from home in your new desk set-up as you attend a virtual standup. What will your team be like? Who is your manager? What will it feel like to receive that first…
