{"id":975,"date":"2012-09-24T07:25:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=975"},"modified":"2012-09-18T14:42:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T21:42:54","slug":"women-connecting-women-at-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/women-connecting-women-at-vmware\/","title":{"rendered":"women connecting women at VMware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, <a title=\"VMware University Relations \u2013 Women Connecting Women Program\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/careers\/2012\/09\/vmware-university-relations-women-connecting-women-program.html\">VMware piloted a mentoring program for our female interns<\/a>: each of our incoming women were offered the opportunity to be paired with a senior woman at the company.<\/p>\n<p>I had my own (female) intern reporting to me, doing awesome research over the course of the 12-week internship. \u00a0I also participated in this program, and mentored a design intern. \u00a0For me as a mentor, it was a great way to get to meet with someone who I wouldn&#8217;t&#8217;ve gotten to spend a lot of time with otherwise, and hear about what life is like for woman who is currently working on her CS undergraduate degree.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the 12 weeks, we talked about a lot of things, including (but definitely not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what it&#8217;s like to do user experience at VMware<\/li>\n<li>her work with the women in CS program at her university<\/li>\n<li>the different career paths available, and how career paths often take unexpected and awesome twists and turns<\/li>\n<li>what it&#8217;s like to juggle two professional careers, and the tradeoffs that you have to make along the way<\/li>\n<li>opportunities to help out other women understand the value of a CS degree<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and so much more. \u00a0I&#8217;ve only barely scratched the surface.<\/p>\n<p>It was a really good experience for me. \u00a0Answering questions makes you think about things, and hearing the perspective of someone who is new to the field is always a good reminder about what we can do to help new people get established.<\/p>\n<p>The best part about this is, I get to see both of these interns again soon. \u00a0They&#8217;re both going to be attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/gracehopper.org\/2012\/\">Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing<\/a> conference this year. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be part of one of the panel sessions, <a href=\"http:\/\/gracehopper.org\/2012\/event\/how-to-influence-without-authority-and-why-it-is-important\/\">how to influence without authority and why it is important<\/a>. \u00a0I just noticed that Nikki, my research intern, was featured in the GHC news, <a href=\"http:\/\/gracehopper.org\/2012\/ghc-bloggers\/my-first-grace-hopper-celebration\/\">writing about her first Grace Hopper Celebration<\/a> (and wearing a VMware t-shirt, too!). \u00a0It&#8217;s my first GHC, so I&#8217;m excited to be able to participate too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, VMware piloted a mentoring program for our female interns: each of our incoming women were offered the opportunity to be paired with a senior woman at the company. I had my own (female) intern reporting to me, doing awesome research over the course of the 12-week internship. \u00a0I also participated in this program, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/women-connecting-women-at-vmware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">women connecting women at VMware<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}