In a recent event organised by Summer of Tech, the panellists shared their personal stories and experiences about embracing one's authentic self at work, especially for those who identify as LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent or have lived disabilities.

Employees with ADHD or neurodiversity can need a little extra support and tools to make them shine. Understanding how different team members approach a task or project and what level of detail or context you need to provide can lead to more successful outcomes for your next project.

Testing students to find out their skills and skill level is time consuming for both students and employers. There is little value to students from typical tests unless they get the role. Exercism.io provides a platform for students to prove their ability while learning and getting feedback on their skills. Employers can ensure that a student's ability is at their preferred standard.

Supporting students who are hard of hearing is equivalent to supporting a remote worker. Technology advances and support from MSD enable employers to provide support for those who are hard of hearing via online meetings and interpreters. There is only a slight shift required in employers' behaviour to support hard of hearing team members.

Deliberate Practice is an effective way to help individuals and teams learn and improve their skills. Learning together as a cohort, and employing Deliberate Practice techniques is a useful way to quickly build knowledge within a team of complex tasks and problems

Perpetual Learning is about providing feedback to help people build their mental models. Mob Programming and Peer Programming are key tools to accelerate your team's learning using advanced cognitive psychology techniques.

Self-awareness is a superpower for those who invest time in creating habits to enable more reflection and constructive feedback.

If you’re keen to improve your inclusive hiring practice, you’ll need to review your interview process to ensure it caters for all your potential applicants. We take a look at ways to improve your inclusive interview practice.

You’ll likely have many processes and structures in place to support your employees at present, but how do you communicate these to future employees? And how could you build on them to attract an even more diverse workforce? We take a look at ways to improve your inclusive hiring practice.

At Summer of Tech, we have worked with hundreds of employers to help them hire tech juniors. Over thousands of conversations, we've recognised three key challenges of hiring good people.

We asked Summer of Tech volunteer and CV reviewer Andrew Barret, a Principal Engineer at WiseAlpha, for some top tips on acing your CV and advice for future CV reviewers.

Annie Foote is a second-year student studying a Bachelor of Engineering, majoring in Cyber Engineering at Victoria University. At the end of her first year in 2022, she landed a Security internship at Helix Security Services.

Courteney is one of our talented Summer of Tech mentors (and 2017 alumni) who we recently caught up to discuss LGBTQI+ and neurodivergence in tech. Now a Power Platform Functional Consultant at Datacom, she generously shares her experience and advice with us about identity disclosure and how to ask for support at work.

Although 2023 is predicted to be another challenging year for tech leaders, we’d like to share some myth-busting tips to give you a roadmap for growing and retaining Aotearoa's future tech workforce together.

Here’s Ryan Bircham's story, he’s a Software Engineer at Whip Around and a Alumni turned Volunteer at Summer of Tech.

Momentum Recruitment, ran a bootcamp on what's next and maximising your new experiences after summer for the 2022 cohort.

These prices fairly reflect our value and are highly competitive compared with other options for hiring tech interns and graduates in Aotearoa. We will save you time, connect you with talented candidates, and streamline your recruitment process.

BNZ shares their approach to supporting and embracing colleague wellbeing. Discover how Matt Oldfield and Catherine Harrison support employees with invisible disabilities.

Summer of Tech has impacted 2,438 talented individuals embarking on tech careers in 2022. 2,225 students and graduates attended 84 free events and facilitated 372 career coaching sessions. Discover more insights into our 2022 programme.

We met with Khushi Chauhan, a Senior Product Lead at Kiwi Bank and Summer of Tech alumni and volunteer. She shared the no.1 thing that she learned from her internship at ANZ as a developer in 2018, her career journey and advice for students entering the workforce.

We met with Sriram Jayaraman, who was keen to share his 2021 summer internship experience. He told us why he chose ZX Security and what he learned during the 2021 programme.

Our incredible partner, Momentum Recruitment, ran a bootcamp on how to make the most out of your first job in tech. Their talented technology recruiters, Bruce Batters, Chelsea Wallace and Lee-Anne Thomson shared their insights and discussed strategies for acing an internship or graduate placement.

In 2022, we are so grateful for the support of our partners in delivering 27 insightful and practical training sessions to over 622 attendees across Aotearoa, held in person and virtually. Read on to learn more about what was covered!

Kristine Brooks landed a UX/UI internship at Snapper last summer, and we met with her to find out how it was going in late 2021. She talked about the benefits of being in a group of interns and gave her take on the Summer of Tech programme.

Earlier this year, Aura Information Security hosted a ‘Security 101’ bootcamp presented by their Security team: Phil Dobson, Alastair Miller, Lachlan Davidson, and Joanna Mañez. The team educated students on the responsibilities, career possibilities and perks of a career in security.

How do we actually process and analyse the feedback that’s given to us so we can effectively learn from it? In this bootcamp, Marcus and Jemimah from Pushpay delved into the importance of knowing how to give and receive feedback and offered some tips and tricks on how to do so.

This bootcamp was hosted by the amazing team at ANZ: Grace Taikato, Chris Pidgeon, Rogan Frazer, Heather Firth and Lauren Halka. The panel delved into commonly asked questions about entering the tech industry.

We met with Miten Chauhan, an Intermediate Software Developer and Sales Engineer from SaferMe who also happens to be Summer of Tech alumni from 2016 and 2017. He shared how he’s grown in the tech industry, what he learnt from being a mentor, what his mentees taught him and gave advice on entering the field.

When interns join the HortPlus team, they work on the MetWatch platform. We spoke with Cody Ellingham, Product Designer & Business Development at HortPlus, about the Summer of Tech programme and the difference interns make to their business.

Summer of Tech requires employment contracts and interns to be treated as employees, with real, fairly paid work! Here are some tips for employers preparing employment contracts for summer interns.