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How Blacks in Technology Foundation is ‘stomping the divide’

CIO Business Intelligence

Today BIT includes a for-profit and a nonprofit side, each of which seeks to break down barriers, create opportunity, and diversify the tech talent pipeline. He signed up for a physics course, a credit he needed to get into Virginia Tech University. Schultz had a similar experience himself after transferring high schools.

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10 fastest growing US tech hubs for IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

There’s high demand for software engineers, web developers, IT support specialists, network administrators and architects, data scientists, and cybersecurity professionals, according to CompTIA. The average tech salary in Charlotte is $118,465 per year — a 11.1% increase from 2021, according to Dice.

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Longtime UX leader Karen Clark Cole on staying present and learning to tell good fear from bad

GeekWire

Cole took an intensive, year-long course in IT and began working in what was then called information architecture. She moved to Seattle, worked briefly at a web development company and then convinced a colleague to start a company with her that focused on UX. “I said, ‘That’s it, that’s what I’m doing. Bill Gates.

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