ABCD-WIT April Meeting --- Recruiting Women in IT

Date: 

Thursday, April 10, 2014, 12:00pm

Location: 

Forum Room @ Lamont Library, 11 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Erin Sharicz, Employment Manager at HKS Human Resources, and Kim Zwieg, Recruitment Consultant at FAS, discussed Recruiting Women in IT: Challenges and Strategies – A Discussion

Erin Sharicz (Employment Manager at Harvard Kennedy School) and Kim Zweig (Recruitment Consultant at Faculty of Arts and Sciences) join the group to lead a discussion on the challenges of recruiting women for our IT positions at Harvard. Erin and Kim will share their challenges, strategies, and ideas and lead an interactive discussion on how schools at Harvard can work to improve hiring and retention of women in IT roles. They also want to hear from the group – from women working in the IT field – on what they see as the challenges and ideas for improvement.