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Community Ruth McDavitt Community Ruth McDavitt

Growing Great Interns, Grads (+ beyond)

80% of New Zealand graduates have little or no confidence in their job prospects, according to a recent survey. What a waste of talent, potential, and social investment. Under-investing in interns and grads will have ripple effects for decades to come, NOW is the time to grow our future.

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Community Ruth McDavitt Community Ruth McDavitt

Closing the gap

For the first time the majority of Summer of Tech interns and graduates were women, a glimmer of hope in the middle of a tough year, are we finally closing the gender gap in tech?

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Community Kate Morten Community Kate Morten

Sponsor Impact Scholarships

This year we’ve provided more financial assistance to our candidates than ever before. Our sponsors ANZ, Spark, Qrious, CCL, Pushpay & FNZ chose this year to leverage their sponsorships to help support underrepresented people & candidates facing financial barriers as they start out on their journeys into tech careers.

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Community Ruth McDavitt Community Ruth McDavitt

Candidates are READY

As we get ready for our mid-year recruitment season, here’s a look under the Summer of Tech “hood”. Our team and more than 80 industry volunteers have been hard at work supporting students and recent grads to get ready to join Aotearoa’s tech industry.

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