{"id":872,"date":"2021-09-29T13:39:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T12:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seda-employability\/?p=872"},"modified":"2021-09-29T13:39:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T12:39:32","slug":"women-in-engineering-free-virtual-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seda-employability\/2021\/09\/29\/women-in-engineering-free-virtual-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Women In Engineering Free Virtual Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">13th October, 1-5pm, live and virtual<\/p>\n<p>Established since 2016 these events have been empowering women to pursue their career aspirations despite the gender imbalance within those sectors. Women make up only 12% of the engineering workforce in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Every year our aim is to reduce the gender gap and increase both gender and ethnic diversity into the engineering industry amongst generation Z.<\/p>\n<p>Hear from the awe inspiring\u00a0<strong>Neera Kukadia<\/strong>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<strong>Ella Podmore<\/strong>\u00a0who will share their journey and offer insights to empower you to follow your career aspirations and make a real difference in equalising the gender balance in this typically male-dominated industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Fox<\/strong>\u00a0is back for her next Linkedin masterclass \u201cHow to Elevate your Professional Brand with Content\u201d. You can watch Laura\u2019s 2020 masterclass sessions on demand:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aT-bqcJlQnY?list=PLYU7S5RIgwNvS5H3QnDykHhyJZVDwFrFl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to create &amp; improve your Linkedin brand identity<\/a>\u00a0&amp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cBKf-wVK2Ao?list=PLYU7S5RIgwNvS5H3QnDykHhyJZVDwFrFl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0Successfully network with industry mentors and employers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panel discussion:<\/strong>\u00a0Our employer panel span several sectors: WSP, GSK, BP &amp; Mott MacDonald. This is a great opportunity how you can use your engineering degree within their organisations. Find out more on their application processes, office culture, career progression, etc.\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hello@campusmedia.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Get ahead and email your question to us<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Event sponsor WSP &amp; Employers GSK, Mott MacDonald, BP, Capgemini &amp; MBDA \u00a0<\/strong>will be delivered excellent insights into their organisations. This is a fantastic opportunity to ask your specific questions to them in the speed networking session.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Event partner \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youngwomenengineer.theiet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Institute of Engineering &amp; Technology (The IET)<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0find out how you can get involved with the Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards 2021\/2022.<\/p>\n<p>Also the chance to win \u00a3500!<\/p>\n<p>Register now at:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusmedia.co.uk\/women-in-engineering-21\/\">Women in Engineering 21 &#8211; Campus Media<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13th October, 1-5pm, live and virtual Established since 2016 these events have been empowering women to pursue their career aspirations despite the gender imbalance within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seda-employability\/2021\/09\/29\/women-in-engineering-free-virtual-event\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9658,872,112,5343,209533],"tags":[9658,872,99357,9666,145910,37,149978,209533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seda-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seda-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seda-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seda-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seda-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seda-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seda-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seda-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seda-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seda-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seda-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}