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4 women in engineering discuss harassment, isolation and perseverence

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Women engineers often face workplace and career challenges that their male colleagues don’t because they remain a minority in the profession: Depending on how you count, women make up just 13% to 25% of engineering jobs. Fowler’s ordeal cast a spotlight on the harassment women engineers have to deal with in the workplace.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

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This demand has driven up salaries for IT roles, especially those around development, engineering, and support. Skills such as software engineering, architecture, cloud, and program management are highly sought after as more companies explore creating both internal and external applications and solutions.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

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The demand for specialized skills has boosted salaries in cybersecurity, data, engineering, development, and program management. 1. IT management It’s no surprise that IT executive positions earn some of the highest average salaries, with Dice reporting an average yearly salary of $164,814 in 2022 — an 8.4%

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PCI compliance: The best defense is a great defense

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Researchers for the 2023 DBIR identified system intrusion, social engineering and basic web application attacks as the most common attack patterns that led to breaches and data theft. Compliance with PCI DSS v4.0 PCI DSS compliance is a robust defense that significantly mitigates the risks involved with all three. “It

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African fintech unicorn Chipper Cash lays off about 12.5% of staff

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TechCrunch has learned from sources that over 50 employees were affected across multiple departments; the engineering team took the biggest hit, with around 60% of those laid off coming from the department, according to people familiar with the matter. Yesterday, a few affected and non-affected employees took to LinkedIn to reveal the news.

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Novanta’s Sarah Betadam on transforming the IT model status quo

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Novanta engineers mission-critical components and subsystems that deliver extreme precision and performance, enabling customers to improve productivity, achieve breakthrough performance, and enhance people’s lives. Digital Transformation, IT Leadership

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Five Flute annotates hardware product development into the current millennium

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We’ve seen firsthand that mechanical engineers and industrial designers want more collaboration and visual communication capability directly in CAD,” William Burke, founder and CEO of Five Flute said about the launch of its SolidWorks plug-in. ” The company today raised $1.2 We want your pitch decks for our Pitch Deck Teardowns!

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