The sorority issue: highlighting the contributions of 3 women
The Allyance newsletter provides many useful references on recruitment, diversity and inclusion.
Good morning readers !
Maryam Jahanshahi is the Co-founder and Head of R&D at Datapeople, Rizel Scarlett is a Staff Developer Advocate at TBD, and Emilie Ringwald is Head of Product at Strapi. What these three bright tech professionals have in common is a deep interest in DEI and ideas on how to bring it about. In this newsletter, I share some of their thoughts and urge you to read articles they recently published.
Because the international women's day on March 8th is still far far away and because we should listen to women every day of the year anyways, I urge you to pay close attention to the following articles and more generally to your female colleagues and your colleagues from minorities.
✅ The Allyance newsletter provides many useful references on recruitment, diversity and inclusion. Here are some articles about Equal Opportunity Employment’s consequences, pregnancy, product management and senior people.
📜 The Language of Inclusion: Decoding the Effect of Equal Opportunity Employment Statements in Hiring
The paper explores the impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) statements in job descriptions. A study conducted by Maryam Jahanshahi for Datapeople tested five different types of DEI statements, in order to understand how these statements affect candidates’ perceptions of inclusiveness.
The "Legalese" DEI statement, in particular, performed best across multiple demographics (People of Color and LGBTQ individuals). The research suggests that DEI statements help foster a more inclusive job search experience.
Participants who self-identified as a race other than Caucasian, Asian, or Asian-American showed a strong preference for the Legalese diversity statement. As a group, the Legalese statement significantly increased perceptions of inclusiveness and fairness compared to no diversity statement. In fact, the Legalese statement was the only one that was significantly different from no diversity statement for People of Color.
🍼 The Reality of Balancing Pregnancy in Developer Relations
The article below discusses the challenges of balancing pregnancy with a demanding career in Developer Relations (DevRel). It made me think about one of my best friends, a currently pregnant Tech Lead. The author, Rizèl Scarlett, shares personal insights from her own pregnancy journey, detailing how exhaustion, shifting priorities, and “mom brain” affected her performance.
She reflects on balancing work, family, and health, highlighting how her pregnancy changed her perspective on productivity. Despite these struggles, she accomplished major professional milestones and expresses gratitude for a flexible, remote job. She encourages others to prepare realistically for balancing pregnancy and tech careers.
My role as a Developer Advocate, with its demanding travel schedule and constant context-switching, seemed particularly challenging to balance with family life. Eager to learn from others' experiences, I searched the internet for content. The scarcity of publicly shared experiences from moms in tech isn't surprising.
🤩 6 key takeaways from my 2 first years as a Manager
Emilie Ringwald, Head of Product at Strapi, reflects on 6 key lessons from two years of management experience after transitioning from a Product Management role. These insights include the importance of being brutally honest to avoid confusion, reacting swiftly with performance plans to facilitate employee growth, and having early conversations about salary and promotions to reduce stress. She emphasizes not taking anything for granted in managing people, acknowledging the impact of multicultural environments, and documenting everything clearly to prevent misunderstandings. These lessons help in building stronger, more effective management practices.
Although we had great internal trainings on the topic, I didn’t fully realize the importance of giving direct and explicit feedback as soon as possible until I experienced the consequences of not doing so.
📋 Les seniors sur le marché du travail en 2023
Cette année, les personnes expérimentées que j’ai accompagnées ont eu beaucoup de mal à obtenir une offre à la fin d’un processus de recrutement. “Trop cher”, “pas expert sur les technologies demandées”, “on a privilégié une personne en interne”... Il faut être plein de détermination quand on a plus de 45 ans dans la tech (si vous me demandez, c’est jeune!).
Je me suis plongée dans le document de la Direction de l'Animation de la recherche, des Études et des Statistiques (DARES) qui présente l'évolution de l'emploi des seniors (55-64 ans) en France en 2023. Leur taux d'emploi est de 58,4 %, supérieur à l'année précédente, mais reste inférieur à la moyenne européenne (63,9 %). Les réformes successives de la retraite ont favorisé cette augmentation, bien que les taux d'emploi diminuent significativement après 60 ans. Les seniors en activité incluent des travailleurs cumulant emploi et retraite, une situation de plus en plus fréquente.
Le taux de chômage des seniors, à 5,4 %, est inférieur à celui de l'ensemble des actifs.
🔦 The Allyance in the spotlight
I travelled to Stockholm to record a podcast with Teamtailor. #StayTuned
🤫 Backstage secrets
✨ The Allyance’s team is growing: welcome Cyrielle, Tanguy and Ian! ✨
✨ Congratulations to Nazim for his Engineering Manager role !
🏆 Mike, a Senior Machine Learning Researcher, found a role within one week following a Linkedin post I shared. I am happy for him!
🖥️ A woman engineer, expert in Frontend (React & Typescript), is ready to interview. Contact me to put you in touch!
🚨 I gave a training for FM Logistic employees on “Beyond Diversity : Inclusion”
🩷Hot jobs we are working on
🫵 Machine Learning Engineer
🫵 Senior Back-end Engineer (Python)
🫵 Backend Engineer (Kotlin)
🫵 Mobile Engineer
More jobs here…
You can contact us : contact@theallyance.one
Caroline Therwath-Chavier, The Allyance CEO
I am really busy at the moment: meeting an average of 4 candidates per day and preparing for 5 training sessions in the following weeks.I feel connected to what I love: hiring people and helping companies change their culture.