Nearly 40,000 female IT workers in the UK have left the industry since 2001. British Computer Society, 2008

Bespoke programmes that attract, recruit and up-skill high calibre female employees into senior level technical and non-technical roles.

Capability Jane has developed two programmes designed to support organisations looking to attract more women across the IT sector. Capability Jane has experience of developing programmes designed to attract high calibre women and recruit them into leading roles within areas of organisations traditionally under-represented by women.

Women into IT: Attracting, recruiting and up-skilling women into non-technical roles

This programme focuses on attracting a pipeline of potential recruits for non-technical business areas. Capability Jane can run the entire programme or just bespoke components including:

• Business case development
  Working with the key areas of the business to develop the case for change
  
• Programme development
  Developing the overall programme design including format, timescales, key milestones, training and stakeholder requirements, recruitment process, key inputs and defined outputs.
  
• Job design
  Developing a toolkit to design flexibility into each role and assessing the impact of this on the team, the manager, clients and key stakeholders
  
• Induction and Training programme development
  Designing the training and induction requirements for the recruitment programme
  
• Candidate Attraction
  Devising an attraction programme to reach out to professional women in the required geographical area and presenting a shortlist of appropriately qualified individuals
  
• Assessment, Recruitment and Induction
  Developing and facilitating the candidate assessment process (usually a one day assessment). Once candidates have been recruited onto the programme, Capability Jane can provide a Project Manager to manage the Induction and Training process.

Women into IT: Training Programmes for Technical Roles

70% of women in technology do not return to their previous positions after a break for maternity primarily due to the inability to find the right work-life balance. We know that 70 of these women are keen to return to a role that allows then some flexibility with their family commitments. However, after a period out of the workplace, many women lack updated technology skills required to return to a technical position.

Our Women into IT programme will enable you to:

• Up-skill professional women returners with the technical ability your organisation needs to recruit
• Position your organisation as progressive within the women returners space
• Build a pipeline of potential female technical employees
• Build goodwill and profile amongst an extremely well networked group of individuals that are otherwise difficult to reach
• Pro-actively support more technical women to re-enter the workforce

To find out more, please contact us on 0845 604 1916 or email us