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Impact your Career through Mentorship

Impact your Career through Mentorship

Heidi Williams
mentorship, advice, career

On June 22, WEST partnered with ChickTech to present a virtual panel discussing how women in tech can best leverage mentorship to impact their careers. Our panelists, all former WEST mentees, discussed their mentorship experiences. They shared how their mentor helped them grow their careers in technical roles by developing horizontal skills such as communication, strategic thinking, personal brand, and leadership. The panel discussed the active role they played as mentees in driving the relationship with their mentors as well as tips for how to get the most out of mentorship. The full video of the panel is available on the ChickTech YouTube channel, but here are a few highlights.

WEST Mentorship makes a difference

WEST Mentorship makes a difference

Heidi Williams

…and we have the numbers to prove it

WEST completed another successful year of fostering & promoting mentorship for our wonderful community of women in technology in 2018. Read about what our mentees and mentors had to say about the WEST impact on their careers.

The Art of Communicating Effectively

The Art of Communicating Effectively

Heidi Williams
advice, career, mentorship

Effective Communication is a key skill to becoming a good leader. It is not what you say but how you say it. It is more than just exchanging information. It is about understanding the intentions behind the information and being able to clearly convey a message that makes the other person feel heard and understood.

Job Searching? Don't Forget to Assess Team Fit

Job Searching? Don't Forget to Assess Team Fit

Heidi Williams

Recently, I was talking to an engineer who was questioning whether she had made the right choice in a recent job change. She was only a few weeks in, but things weren't quite settling in as she had pictured. Here are the three key questions to keep in mind as you determine your fit for a potential team or role.