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Hire Tech Ladies — Connecting women with the best jobs in tech
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@rrhoover Thanks, Ryan! We actually don't do matching. The first thing we do is work with companies who support women in tech, and actively want to hire more women. We look for things like generous parental leave, open/transparent salary formulas, and/or just a good culture for women according to recommendations from other ladies in our group.
Then we write blurbs for each company, including the roles they're hiring for, and share with our group. We include a personal contact on each job posting so that women can reach out directly, and their application doesn't just sit in a pile. The jobs page is PW-protected for women in our group, but if any PH-ers are interested in checking it out, the current password is WINAGAIN.
So excited to share this today!
@allisonveronica excellent! I just shared this with my TA and ERG teams, who will undoubtedly be reaching out to connect our recruiters, women's forum members, and leaders to your network! @rrhoover
Thanks for hunting us, Ryan!
Hey everyone! We're so excited to launch this site today. Here's some background on this project. Please let me know if you have any questions!
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Tech Ladies started as a few women getting coffee on Friday mornings before work. It has quickly grown into an active online community of 2,000+ women all over the world who work in product, engineering, design, marketing, business development, ops and more.
Members of the group hail from top companies and startups like Adobe, Tesla, Spotify, NASA, Apple, Tumblr, Palantir, and Buzzfeed, just to name a few.
From the beginning, one of the best aspects of the group has been sharing job openings with each other, along with inside info on whether or not the company is truly a good place for women to work.
This information and networking is priceless. That’s why today we’re launching Hire Tech Ladies to build on this tradition.
For the past few months, we’ve been sending weekly emails featuring jobs from companies that want to hire more women in tech and the response has been bananas. Our site is launching today with jobs from companies like Warby Parker, Spring, Buffer, Jet, and more.
There is clearly a huge opportunity to connect women in tech with the best jobs ever (and companies with the best women techmakers), and we’re excited push that forward with Hire Tech Ladies.
Looking forward to chatting with you about this!
@allisonveronica This is awesome! I will tweet and tell all my portfolio companies about you.
@allisonveronica this is awesome! We could have used this 2 years ago. Bookmarked to use quite soon :)
@craig_morantz We are just now getting applications from women in Toronto, perhaps there will be a chapter there in coming months.
Congrats @allisonveronica ! Amazed at the community you've built. What's the biggest community lesson you've learned while growing it?
@eriktorenberg Thanks, Erik! It means a lot coming from you. I think one of the biggest things I've learned so far is that the tone you set from the beginning is really important.
We try to focus on being positive and supportive in our group, not just creating a culture of asking, but making sure each person helps to create a culture of offering to help, too. We're going to work really hard to keep this as we grow bigger and bigger, too.
Sou proud of @allisonveronica! I've added Hire Tech Ladies to my Female Founders Collection.
We have been working with Allison and "Hire Tech Ladies" here at Yieldmo for a few weeks now and couldn't be more thrilled to see the site launch. Allison is a rare soul in this city, and the NYC Tech Ladies are doing more for the ecosystem than most.
Love what you're going! Best of luck!
It you'd like to share this on https://tidl.es I'd be more than happy to feature you and Hire Tech Ladies with the ladies on Tidl.
Looks like a great platform to offer something substantial to all the talented women out there. All the best, Allison.
@allisonveronica I love what you guys are doing., we certainly need more Ladies in tech and I hope with your hard work it will create a big impact in the technology industry. The platform is clean and easy to navigate to and one of the things that is tough for females is to get in touch with the hiring managers by providing the direct contact information you have closed that gap.
Not to hijack your page ;) but, I run a similar platform which is exclusively focused on developers and having a vast experience in recruitment myself I noticed that one of the biggest challenges for hiring managers is people submitting fake or third party profiles. Once your product starts to get more and more attention third party companies will create a free account as I was able to and pretty much directly contact the hiring manager.
So my question is what is your strategy to avoid this situation from happening?
@advocateoz Hi Oz!
We don't have accounts per se and our membership has primarily grown from word of mouth (women telling other women at their company about us, etc) And since it's a community-first and job board second, we see a little less of this but agree this could become a problem as we grow. Our membership is open and free right now, but as we grow we may create more of a stringent application process where we approve each member by hand. How do you handle it on your end?
@allisonveronica Thank you for your response Allison. I was trying to pick your brain and see if you are doing something that can help me make the job market genuine.
Since our main focus is only developers it's not so much of a mess.
We have a team to review and verify each and every account to ensure it's legitimacy. It's tedious but, quality takes hard work.
When we get really big (fingers cross) and miss a profile we have plans to integrate a report feature for registered users.
Currently our system provides the option for users to either share the contact details publicly otherwise they can keep it hidden and release it to the people individually upon request.
We also have an option to completely hide your profile from public view and still be able use all the features of the platform which is helpful in lots of way. It goes for both developers and recruiters as becasue both parties have a huge problem receiving non-soliciting calls/emails that is not relevant to their interest.
I certainly don't consider your product as a competition and very proud of what you guys are doing. Let me know if I can help in anyway to create a buzz for you guys. Good Luck!
@allisonveronica you should connect with @brookejoneschinetti :) Brooke is with an organization that places Veterans in Tech. They just held their first ever all women's trek to NYC.
@mhelbig1 @brookejoneschinetti That sounds incredible. Would love to connect.
You have a fan in me! Love the heart behind the idea, @allisonveronica. Other companies that I'd highly recommend for women in #tech are @Zendesk and @ZoomInfo. I've personally worked w these teams. Top-shelf IMO. And if you need a powerhouse connector, Mrs. Dani Wanderer has been kicking butt and taking names as a female leader in tech for more years than I can count. Get on her radar ;)
@wileyccoyote @zendesk @zoominfo Hey! Wow thanks for this info. I would love to have you + Dani in the group if you're interested! http://www.hiretechladies.com/join/
Love what you are doing @Allisonveronica, As your community grows, we hope to work with you eventually at Kuhustle.com
@allisonveronica: This is awesome and very much needed. Thanks for doing the work you do! Looking forward to seeing it grow and make an impact.
@buzluser Thanks! Nothing like a good Slack group of ladies :)
@leftearpod Thanks, it's been really fun watching it grow. (Especially today, whoo!)
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