Some of the most meaningful impact in tech comes from creating spaces where experience is shared honestly. Recently our Yulia Tokareva took on the role of co-facilitator in the Emerging Technologist Peer Mentoring Circle by Women in Big Data. "Mentorship shortens learning curves, normalizes uncertainty and makes complex career paths feel more navigable, especially in technology, where women's experience and voices are still too often underrepresented", – Yulia said.
During the program group spent time exploring the quiet link between networking and self-advocacy. Relationships may open the door, but it's the ability to articulate your value, ask for space and advocate for yourself that actually gets you through it, together they compound.
Participants together with mentors also spent significant time on something that's shifted from "nice to have" to essential: Al in career navigation and job searching. Those who use Al to refine their narrative, prepare with intention and navigate opportunities with clarity simply operate at a different speed. Visibility today is designed, and staying competitive increasingly means knowing how to work with the tools shaping the market.
In T1A we are proud to see the team contributing knowledge, openness and perspective, the kind that stays with people long after the sessions end. Thanks to Deborah Sgro and everyone who made this program possible, and to those who keep investing their time and energy into growing others 🔝
