P is for Promotion: How to get recognized at work!: Shilpa Vir, eBay Lead Product Manager, discussed strategies for getting recognized. eBay’s Public API’s Product Announcement: Gail Frederick, eBay Senior Director, discussed our release of public Application Programming Interfaces for both buyers and sellers. These statistics really seemed to get them excited about applying.Īt the event, several speakers from both eBay and StubHub appeared, addressing the following topics: I explained to them that 80 percent of the items sold are new, 80 percent of the items can be bought immediately (buy it now), 65 percent of items ship in three days or less, and that eBay has more than one billion items listed. In addition, many of them were surprised to hear about some of eBay’s key statistics. They were impressed with our commitment to our seller community and how we make an impact on their lives. Talking with the prospective job candidates gave me the opportunity to not only learn about their skills and interests, but also the opportunity for me to share eBay’s purpose. A reception that we hosted was one of the highlights of the conference, with about 160 eBay attendees and 200+ prospective job candidates. Notably, about 1,000 of the attendees were men, and it was noted at the conference that men and women are both essential to driving diversity initiatives.ĮBay, a Diamond Sponsor of GHC, also had an active recruiting presence of Global Talent Engagement representatives on hand, focusing on bringing the most qualified women technologists to the company. To put that number in perspective, when the conference began in 1994, there were only 500 attendees. It was a privilege to attend this year’s conference and to see first-hand, how many women are contributors, mentors, innovators in our industry.įifteen thousand women attended the event in Houston, including interns, recent college graduates, technical managers and executives. Every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing is a reminder of how far our industry has come – and encouraging to see the growing number of women pursuing careers in technology.
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