How women can rebuild their career using Open Source Technologies like Android

Presented by:Pyari KProduct ManagerKodemint TechnologiesCalicut

About the topic● Being an event associated with women’s day, focus on issues specific to women.

● Therefore chose to speak about “rebuilding” a career, which is something specific to women. ● coz it is they who will mostly have two phases in their careers (after and before breaks)

Woman & her career - some figures

Woman & her career - some facts● Sampling from friends & contacts in FB/Linkedin - can observe a similar pattern .

● Academically & performance wise at the entry level and middle management level - would be good

● The representation goes down mainly because of two facts:

○ Prefer to stay back at lower positions than what they deserve to be in - to take up lesser responsibilities at work■ eg: they might take up roles like that of an individual contributor to save time on people management

○ Decides to quit the job

Woman & her career - Challenges - coming back after a break

● Unfriendly HR policies - people with breaks are looked down upon.

- breaks with more than 6 months not entertained

- companies push you to grow

- travel - especially if you hold a visa

● Difficulty in keeping themselves updated with the changing technology

Women & Career breaks● Fresher (not specific to women)

● Marriage - relocation to spouse location

● Child birth & maternity break

● Kids’ studies

Why Android? (to rebuild your career)

● One among the leading technologies

● Open source & community driven

● Easy to learn

● Embraced by leading companies

● Easy to keep yourself updated

● Lot of career options to choose from - depending on the amount of time a women on a career break can afford to spend

DevelopmentDeveloper

- advantage:

(i) fill gaps in your career

(ii) be hands on & updated

(iii) monetise it (sell it on play store, offer in-app purchases)

(iv) can single handedly develop an app

(a) develop apps of your own

(b) develop apps as a freelancer or in association with small companies, who do not prefer to have a full time developer (web development companies, who are looking to slowly planning to move to app development)

Options available when are back after a break

UI & UX DesignUI DesignerEvery app needs a User Interface.

Options available when are back after a break

Careers - Related to Android - UI Designer...

Courtesy: Abhilash Ramadasaninfo@amdzines.com

Options available when are back after a break

Back end developerBack end Developer

- Lot of apps interact with a back end

- Even if you are a developer with experience in other technologies, take the first step to move to android by developing a back end (database and web service) for an android app.

Options available when are back after a break

Entrepreneurship - Contribute to your team Roles - women can prefer to take up - during initial stages

- Pre-sales and marketing activities (anything around you can have an app associated with it these days)

- eg: your movie complex, your favorite food blog, your travel ticket booking agents

- can call up and fix up an appointment & meet at your convenience.

- Requirement collection

- Technical specifications

- Quality Assurance

- Business Analysis to an extent (if one doesn’t have restrictions on the timings you can work on)

The above need not be done as an entrepreneur. There are part time jobs in lot of companies & they look for candidates who work from home for such roles.

Thank you