1. High School Technology Attraction by Women in Technology Network
Joanna Grzeszkowska, Graduate Resourcing Partner, EMEA O&T
Ludwika Suska, Graduate Resourcing Partner, Poland
January 30th, 2019

2. Women in Technology Network – what is it about
Who we are
Women in Technology Network within CSC Poland gathers local employees who work on global level in various areas as: Vendor Management, IT support, Security, Compliance, Project Management, etc.
Program, launched in March 2016, follows the new Global Diversity approach. Formal Steering Committee established in November 2016.
As Network we promote diversity at workplace and encourage women to develop in the area of IT and Technology.
Our objectives
Implement Diversity & Inclusion culture in the hiring, development and promotions process
Provide a platform of connections, resources and opportunities
Create a pipeline of women to fill leadership positions
Help women to manage work life - balance and come back to work after maternity leave
CSC Poland to be recognized on the market as women friendly organization

3. Women in Technology Network – what is it about
Our mission
We want to be a catalyst for attracting and retaining talent and developing and promoting women leaders at Citi.
We aim to empower and create a competitive advantage for Citi’s women by providing key resources, including networking, leadership training and personal & professional development.
Flagship projects
Global Role Model session
High School Technology Attraction
Unconscious Bias
Mentoring by Technologia w Spódnicy
IT for SHE
#iamremarkable
Good IDP

4. High School Technology Attraction – background
How it has started
As stereotypes are created in awareness even before start of career we agreed that to have real influence on people’s mindsets about IT world we should target to younger audience.
IT Market Statistics
Rapot Kobiety w IT 2018 – Raport o sytuacji kobiet w branży- IT w Polsce / Carrot Girls

5. High School Technology Attraction – background
Story of High School Technology Attraction
Idea for High School Technology Attraction appeared in May After one month first event of initiative had place.
We target to students from High Schools who are just before taking decisions about their future. By example of our company and diversity backgrounds of our employees we want to show them all opportunities that are available for them.
We visited first schools in academic year 2016/17 and since then form of our workshops is still evolving to fulfill students’ expectations in the best way.
Our aims
to encourage young people (especially women, but not only) to take a technological career path and do not follow stereotypes or artificial restrictions which they may find on the way
promote Citi as technology company

6. Scope of workshops
We start with short presentation about Citi, then we talk about gender stereotypes in the selection of professions. Students have opportunity to ask questions and share their observations. We also briefly present career opportunities in the technological areas of global companies on the example of Citi.
In the second part we conduct an interesting IT game that checks students perceptiveness, the ability to logical thinking and move around the world of the Internet.
We still improve our presentation, IT game and speeches to make our listeners interested in the project we also promote in our social media channels – like fan page Citi Careers where we address our content to over 194k Facebook users.
Photos taken during our workshops in academic year 2016/17

7. Our achievements
Statistics for academic year 2017/18

8. Our team

9. Thank you!