Female CEO of £100m business launches 12-week course to get more women into tech jobs
Amy Golding, CEO of Opus Talent Solutions, hopes to address the gender imbalance in the tech industry with her 12-week course that can catapult women into junior tech roles. .. Full story on dailymail.co.uk
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A lack of tech knowhow is costing the UK £63bn a year, according to the CBI, and there are an estimated 600,000 vacancies in digital.
Jobs in tech permeate every sector, and many women, from midwives to teachers to actors and career-break mothers, are discovering they don’t need a maths or tech background to retrain and reinvent themselves. Many say new tech skills give them status, more balance and a professional future, rather than scrabbling around for work in a frantic jobs market.
“We’ve got a ballet dancer from the West End retraining with us,” says a delighted Amy Golding, a former English graduate and chief executive of tech recruiter Opus Talent Solutions, who’s created a new course to help people train from scratch as junior developers, out of sheer frustration at the shortage.