Although, a formal education in tech is quite helpful in landing opportunities for your first job in tech but with so many online resources, anyone without a formal education in tech can also switch careers to tech easily and it is not necessary to have a degree in computer science, math or other STEM fields anymore.

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Abstract
How to land your first job in tech without an engineering
degree
Although, a formal education in tech is quite helpful in landing opportunities for your
first job in tech but with so many online resources, anyone without a formal education in tech
can also switch careers to tech easily and it is not necessary to have a degree in computer
science, math or other STEM fields anymore. In today’s fast-paced technology industry, most
of the information of the world is never more than a few clicks away and where things
change so fast, education must in fact be a life-long process and not the learn-once-use-
forever process. Therefore, relevance of a degree is easily compensated with relevant skills
combined with business use-cases and projects.
In this talk, we will discuss the roles and opportunities in the tech industry and how to
use a skill-driven approach that changes mindset to approach job-hunt. We will further
discuss how can one break barriers of academic limitations or inadequate/irrelevant past work
experience and tap into opportunities in tech through soft skills and networking, choosing to
slip into the job they want rather than slipping away. We will finally conclude it with some
useful resources and hacks to network better to land into opportunities life-long.
Speaker Intro
Stuti Verma is Director at Women Who Code-Delhi, an international organisation that helps
and promotes women to excel in technology careers. She organises meetups, manages
partnerships and mentors team at Women Who Code-Delhi. She is also working as a
Software Engineer at Incedo in Java technologies and currently involved in RPA
(Workfusion, UiPath and Python) with Centre of Excellence team.