80% of graduates have no confidence they can find a job. Summer of Tech have 3000 hopeful students vying for 100 jobs. We are in crisis.

Leadership has changed, there is a tension between empowering your team and ensuring there is accountability. This post talks about the challenges leaders face and touches on how to get started.

If we want a future where digital technology is accessible to everyone, we must first ensure that our language is not a barrier but a bridge. By making our industry’s language more inclusive, we not only open the doors to broader participation but also enrich our field with diverse perspectives and ideas.

With the government looking to reform vocational education again we need to ask ourselves - are we a trade or a profession? or something else?

Why do we have a diversity problem in 2024?

“There is an obvious gender imbalance in STEM study choices in our country with female students dropping from 41.5% in Year 12 to only 19.8% in higher (tertiary) education. Postgraduate and Masters/PhD show an even more dramatic decrease, with only 4.6% and 2.4% of women respectively.”

For those of us who live and breathe digital tech we know how wonderful this industry can be, how well it can pay, how creative, rewarding and mentally stimulating the mahi (work) can be. Sadly we are only a tiny percentage of the population and unless someone in your immediate whānau works in our space most people have no idea - especially our tamariki (children).