women in IT

[aragorn]

there seems to be quite a shortage of women in IT support in Perth. I've been looking for a partner of the female gender for my male dominated business for some time but do not get many takers.

Some of the key requirements are experience, the ability to get microsoft certified at some stage, good communication skills, and ambition.

I service small business networks with speciality in sbs2003. If you want to contact me please PM me.

[calyx]

aragorn, I'm not sure if you've found someone by now (edit: this post was made early last year? this subforum moves slowly!), but it might help to outline why you're specifically looking for a female. What is it about females that you think can help your business? (Also, if you're advertising officially, bear in mind it's illegal to advertise specifically for a woman without an EOC exemption.) Good luck.

[jeffrisk]

You are telling good. this thing in IT industry is important. because women are not interested in this field. Thats way they are not in this field.

[meg]

You are telling good. this thing in IT industry is important. because women are not interested in this field. Thats way they are not in this field.

That's the biggest load of wallop I've seen in a long time!

There's plenty of "grrrls" working in IT - web related and otherwise. I'm a girl who's been in IT management for a few years now and have employed a number of geek girls (and geek blokes), all of whom have been exceptionally talented and just as geeky (sometimes much more so) as their male counterparts.

I would however say that the grrrls on the whole aren't as interested in desktop support roles, but I've come across quite a few really scarily competent chicks in system admin and network engineering roles as well as a large number who are in software development. I guess it depends on the area you're thinking of - IT is quite a broad field and if you're just looking at one part of it, you might think that females are under-represented.

[kay]

Um, I wish I could figure out how to close threads more than a year or so old. I'm not sure what jeffrisk is doing but leaving pointless comments on multiple posts that are years old is not gonna fly.

[scross]

jeffrisk - absolutely pointless comments are never useful. Opening your eyes to the community around you may infact prove your comments entirely incorrect.

Kay - I wish you could close it also :)

[meg]

Is it possible to just close this one? :-)

[cadmium]

Is it possible to just close this one? :-)

Sure is :)