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Career mentors navigate, advice and guide you towards the best. They focus on helping with the job search, strategising to achieve career goals and answering any questions you might have about yourself.

So, how exactly can they help us get our dream job?

1. Identify strengths and blind spots

Narrowing down your unique strengths and journey is key to strategising on what to look for in your first career opportunity. Many of us neglect our abilities and skills, so mentors put a spotlight on them.

This allows to better communicate your strengths during the recruitment process and apply them as superpower to develop your vision and aspirations.

2. Build your confidence

Employers identified a huge gap in students' confidence during the hiring process. Conducted studies concluded: confidence plays a vital role in candidate selection for the job position.

Fortunately, mentors can help you close the gap by identifying your value and making you understand how you should choose a career of your interests.

3. Build roadmap to career destination

Setting up career goals is one of the most crucial steps in getting the job and making the journey easy.

Career mentors help us to identify where we are heading to and set a benchmark to get there. From understanding your strengths to getting through the interview successfully, mentors allow us to get a complete roadmap to our dream career.

4. Give access to a wider network

Career mentors also enable you to increase your visibility by providing networking opportunities and identifying potential collaborations.

Their long-term presence in the industry gives them the ability to introduce you to new contacts that make sure your resume is given more than a cursory glance when submitted.

Did you have a career mentor? Share your experience - we are curious to know!

Marissa Mayer is an American businesswoman and investor. She was Google’s first female engineer and 20th employee. After spending 13 years at the tech giant, Marissa served as the president and CEO of Yahoo! for 5 years. In 2018 she founded tech incubator Lumi Labs, which was renamed Sunshine in 2020.

Marissa Mayer was listed on the America’s Self-Made Women 2021 list by Forbes, as well as was ranked 498 of the top 500 Fortune 500 company CEOs in 2017. She has become an advocate for encouraging girls in STEM being open about their passion: “It wasn’t until I was a professional woman mentoring other girls in math and science that I learned that openly liking math and science is unusual for girls”.

How can we, as women, improve our LinkedIn profile visibility?

LinkedIn is a powerful tool used my millions of people worldwide. We can connect and strengthen professional relationships, learn new skills and, most importantly, find the right job or internship.

Here are 4 tips to increase our chances of appearing in search results and establishing more meaningful connections:

1. Write engaging profile summary

LinkedIn summary is a great chance to tell recruiters who you are. The study shows that our profile summaries tend to be shorter than that of men.

Summaries are a great opportunity to show our accomplishments, recognitions, range of interests and goals we are trying to achieve. Make it eye-catching and outstanding.

2. List more skills

As with profile summaries, women include 11% fewer skills than men on LinkedIn.

When employers search for potential candidates, they use skills as keywords to find the most suitable person. That's why, listing more skills increases our chances of appearing in search results.

3. Make multiple language profile

LinkedIn is a powerful tool for making global connections.

We can create our profile in different language, so it is easier for others to find us. It also makes the profile more visible to recruiters who are based in another country.

4. Ask for recommendations

We can advocate ourselves on LinkedIn by asking our teammates, previous colleagues, peers to write a recommendation, which will appear on our profile.

When making recommendations for someone else, we also increase our profile's visibility, as they are accessible to anyone.

Which tips help you? Let us know!

British mathematician and science author Ian Stewart has looked into 17 mathematical equations that are fundamental to everyday life.

From basic understanding of how the physical world works to models underlying the market predictions, these equations have changed the human history.

Did you know that you can learn programming for free?

We have picked 5 of the best learning platforms worth using, whether you are new to programming or looking to advance your skills.

We are happy to introduce our weekly rubric that unveils the power of words to understand the world around us.

Shirley Chisholm was an American politician and the first black woman elected to the United States Congress, representing New York’s 12th congressional district. Her motto and title of her autobiography – Unbossed and Unbought – illustrates her outspoken advocacy for women and minorities.

Which companies are ranked as the BEST women-centric companies in the world among their female workforce?

1. HubSpot.

An American developer and marketer of software products has been ranked the highest, according to Comparability's "Best Companies for Women 2020" award.

Rating: 87/100
Industry: CRM software
Location: Cambridge, US
Employees: 4,261
Benefits: unlimited PTO, stocks at a discounted rates for employees, 17-week maternity leave.

2. Adobe.

A well-known multinational computer software company Adobe has been ranked as the second best company for female employees in 2020.

Rating: 87/100
Industry: Enterprise software
Location: San Jose, US
Employees: 25,091
Benefits: Executive Shadow Programme, budget of $10,000 for employee's educational opportunities, 26-week maternity leave.

3. Google.

American multinational technology company Google has been, surprisingly, ranked as the third best women-centric company in the world.

Rating: 80/100
Industry: Internet cloud computing
Location: Mountain View, US
Employees: 144, 056
Benefits: Women@Google community, $500 'baby bonding bucks' per employee, 14-week maternity leave.

4. Bell.

A US-based aerospace manufacturer Bell has also been recognised for its diversity policies and initiatives.

Rating: 84/100
Industry: Aviation and aerospace
Location: Fort Worth, US
Employees: 6,247
Benefits: $8,000 financial support for further education, discounted equity rates for employees, Women's Leadership Forum.

5. CVS Health.

A leading health solutions company CVS Health, based in Woonsocket, US, completes the ranking of the 'Best Companies for Women 2020'.

Rating: 70/100
Industry: Healthcare
Location: Woonsocket, US
Employees: 300,000
Benefits: Educational support, opportunity to purchase stock and equity in CVS Health at a discounted rate, 12-week parental leave.

What is the main determinant for you to consider an organisation as 'women-centric'?

Does gender diversity in the workplace have an impact on innovation?

The short answer is YES!

The studies show that gender diversity has a positive correlation with innovative activities, R&D intensity, number of obtained patents and overall organisational performance.

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Our weekly rubric equall.leaders takes you through the journey of women leaders in STEM who inspire us. These women show us that nothing is impossible when you pursue what you truly want!

You understand your power when you realise that everything around you is built by people just like you and me. Today’s post highlights Anjul who is succeeding in tech industry with this power.

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