Description
Title
Doctor, Lawyer, Poker Player, Physicist: The Best Engineers We're Not Competing To Hire Yet
Abstract
"The team needs more engineers and we need them today."
We talk about the engineer shortage. But the problem is not what we think it is. We'll explore how hiring for only CS degrees misses exceptional opportunities. Unconventional backgrounds breed great developers.
Homogeneity boxes us in. Diverse teams are more productive, more profitable, and more excited about what they're accomplishing. Diversity isn't just demographics. It's about benefitting from distinctly varied perspectives. Who better than the former philosopher, marine biologist, stage hand, or anthropologist? In this talk, we'll walk through why it's worth competing for them.
Forget the rock star; hire the opera singer.
Speaker
Carina C. Zona
Bio
Carina C. Zona is a developer and advocate. She teaches for many women's tech outreach groups, and served for a year on RailsBridge core team. She is the founder of @callbackwomen, an initiative to connect first-time speakers with conferences. Carina is also a certified sex educator. In her spare time, she engineers baked goods.
Contact
Twitter: cczona
Email: cczona@gmail.com