This document discusses how women can rebuild their careers using open source technologies like Android. It notes that women often have two phases in their careers, before and after breaks for things like marriage, childbirth, or family responsibilities. Developing skills in Android can help women rebuild their careers as it is an in-demand, open source technology that is easy to learn. The document outlines several Android-related career paths women can consider, such as mobile developer, UI designer, back-end developer, entrepreneur, and roles in marketing, project management, or quality assurance. It emphasizes that Android skills can be developed independently or on a flexible schedule to accommodate family responsibilities.

1. How women can rebuild their career using
Open Source Technologies like Android
Presented by:
Pyari K
Product Manager
Kodemint Technologies
Calicut

2. 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.
o coz it is they who will mostly have two phases in their
careers (after and before breaks)

3. Woman & her career - some figures

4. 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:
o 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

5. Women & Career breaks
• Fresher (not specific to women alone)
• Marriage - relocation to spouse location
• Child birth & maternity break
• Kids’ studies

6. 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

7. Why Android? (to rebuild your career)
• One among the leading technologies
• Open source & community driven
• Easy to learn
• Embraced by leading companies
• Easier to keep yourself updated
• Lot of career options to choose from - depending on the amount of time a
woman on a career break can afford to spend

8. Careers - Related to Android - Development
Developer
- advantage:
(i) fill gaps in your career - by being at home
(ii) be hands on & updated
(iii) monetise it (sell it on play store, offer in-app purchases)
(iv) can single handedly develop an app
- unlike other work from developer jobs
- so, you will be in full ctrl of the changes in functionality & technical
aspects
(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 (eg: web development companies, who are looking to slowly planning to move to app development)

9. Careers - Related to Android – For Creative
women
UI Designer
Every app needs a User Interface.
Associate with a firm and be front end developer

10. Careers - Related to Android - UI Designer...
Courtesy: Abhilash Ramadasan
info@amdzines.com

11. Careers - Related to Android - Back end
developer
Back end Developer
- Lot of apps interact with a back end
- Some examples
- 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.

12. Careers - Related to Android - Be an
entrepreneur
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)
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.

13. Transition to the Next phase - Options
- Tech lead
- Quality Assurance
- Project Manager
- Business Analyst
- Marketing

14. Thank you!