Two weeks ago, Avanade participated in the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Houston. As the new recruitment marketing lead, with a whopping fourteen days of tenure under my belt, I had the opportunity to attend Grace Hopper to meet people, learn more about our approach to recruiting women and see our talent brand come to lif...
Hi, my name is Frank and I work at Avanade as the lead for the Messaging and Collaboration Capability Group in Germany. I’d like to share my story that involves Namibia, my sewing machine and Guido Maria Kretschmer, the famous German clothes designer and TV personality. I grew up in Namibia and South Africa and studied electrical engineering at the...
This is a guest blog post written by Avanade alum, Vikki Leach. Earlier this month, Avanade opened its relocated New York Metro office by hosting a day focused on innovation, with a particular emphasis on women in innovation. We took this as an opportunity to publicly announce Avanade’s newly formed partnership with The Aspire Foundation, which is ...
This is a guest blog post written by Avanade alum, Eddie Pate. The Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), taking place October 14-16th in Houston, Texas, honors women in computing and Avanade will be right in the middle of it all. For me, as the Leader of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) at Avanade, I see this event unfolding in two ways. The first way comes...