https://sandrocirulli.net/tags/itrecruitment/ Recent content in ITRecruitment on Sandro Cirulli Hugo en-gb Sun, 03 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://sandrocirulli.net/why-we-need-more-women-in-technology/ Sun, 03 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://sandrocirulli.net/why-we-need-more-women-in-technology/ <figure><img src="../../img/female-speech.jpg" alt="Female speech"><figcaption> <p>Image: R.L.Trask and B. Mayblin (2000), Introducing Linguistics, Cambridge: Icon Books ©</p> </figcaption> </figure> <p>Few months ago I sat in an interview panel for <strong>recruiting a system administrator</strong> at work. We interviewed two male candidates who applied for the job. Although they seem to have excellent technical skills they completely lacked <strong>soft skills</strong>. My colleagues and I tried to gear the interview towards a normal conversation but instead we were constantly faced with monologues featuring obscure tech acronyms and fancy technologies that were not even relevant for the job. I left the room in despair and at the end we decided not to hire any of them and to start the recruitment process from scratch. I remember asking my colleague: &ldquo;Next time <strong>can we please shortlist at least one woman?</strong>&rdquo; Unfortunately we haven’t seen any female candidate so far&hellip;</p>