Tech careers for women: what are the main roles and how do you retrain?
A lack of tech knowhow is costing the UK £63bn a year, according to the CBI, and there are an estimated 600,000 vacancies in digital. Jobs in tech permeate every sector, and many women, from midwives to teachers to actors and career-break mothers, are discovering they don’t need a maths or tech background to retrain and reinvent themselves. Many say new tech skills give them status, more balance and a professional future, rather than scrabbling around for work in a frantic jobs market. “We’ve got a ballet dancer from the West End retraining with us,” says a delighted Amy Golding, a f...
Source: theguardian.com