On Monday, May 5th, WICS hosted a negotiation panel to prepare all kinds of job seekers to face the ultimate stage of the recruitment process: negotiating your salary and benefits. The panel consisted of experts on the topic, from IT recruiters to senior engineers. The event started with an audience
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On Monday, April 26th, a recruiter from PennyMac went over tips on how to write a professional email. We learned that emails should be friendly, pleasant and informative with important information clearly, and concisely presented in bullet points. We also learned the differences between cc and bcc and how to
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On Friday, April 9th, WICS held their third and final Mentorship Workshop to allow families to continue working on their websites. For this workshop, the mentors and mentees were able to learn how to work with Git Branches, Pull Requests and Heroku. The demonstration included showing families how to use
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On Monday, April 5th, representatives from Inscripta held an info session for WICS members to learn more about bioinformatics and the intersection between tech and biology. We were joined by two bioinformatic specialists of the Computational Sciences and Engineering team (CoSE) at Inscripta, who are responsible for bridging the gap
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On Monday, April 5, WICS hosted two roundtable sessions with representatives from Chipotle. We started by going around the Webex meeting room sharing the technical roles and new technologies that we were interested in. After that, attendees listened to a complete overview of Chipotle’s hiring process, which included Hackerrank problems,
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On Monday, March 29, WICS held the First General Meeting for the spring quarter. The meeting kicked off with an introduction to the current WICS Board, WICS Committee, and the new 2021-2022 WICS Board. After the introduction, we announced the WICS event that we will be having for spring quarter.
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On Monday, March 8th 2021, WICS organized a pomodoro-style study night to help close off this stressful quarter! During our Zoom meeting, participants were able to choose the rooms that corresponded to the classes that they were studying for. Every group had their own breakout room, where the participants studied
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This Monday, March 1st 2021, WICS held a self-care session to encourage students to take a break during this stressful time of the quarter. Members were able to join various breakout rooms dedicated to different self-care activities. One breakout room was dedicated to Jigsaw Puzzles, another to origami, another to
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On Monday, February 22, special guests from Intel joined our general Monday meetings to teach us more about how ideas turn into projects. They started off the meeting with amazing energy and showed off their cute intel virtual backgrounds. Afterwards, they began presenting about RBHE (retail, banking, hospitality and restaurants,
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On Friday, February 19, various mentorship families came out to continue working on their family website! The mentors and mentees were given an overview of how to use HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap to help set up their Home and About Us pages. Families were given time in breakout sessions to
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