Engineer Your Tech Career with Basma Shahid of Blockthrough | May 25
About This Event
This month's career chat in engineering, we’ll meet with Basma Shahid, Solutions Engineer Coordinator at Blockthrough.
From this discussion, we'll learn the why's and how's of her career transition from being a marketing professional to a coding one.
RSVP to get all the inspirations you need to take your career to the next level!
Takeaways
Learn about hybrid technical roles for career changers, especially if you have people or client-facing backgrounds!
About the Instructor
Partnerships Manager, General Assembly
Lupe manages Employer Partnerships at General Assembly, connecting employers to top talent in UX, Data Science, and Engineering. Prior to this, she has coached for 4+ years and has coached hundreds of GA's career changers. Lupe is also a fierce advocate for DEI in tech and hiring.
Solutions Engineer Coordinator, Blockthrough
Basma is currently a Solutions Engineer Coordinator at Blockthrough as well as a marketing student in her final year of university. She graduated from the General Assembly Software Engineering Immersive program in August 2021, bringing her technical knowledge and skills from the program into her current role. Since moving to Canada from Pakistan in 2016, Basma has dedicated her time toward her passion to solve problems through creative solutions.
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Illinois Students
Participants who complete this workshop will not receive a certificate or any other designation of completion.
This workshop is not designed to prepare individuals to follow or pursue a trade, occupation or profession. It is not designed to improve, enhance, or add to the skills and abilities of an individual relative to occupational responsibilities or career opportunities.
This workshop is not approved by the Division of Private Business and Vocational Schools at the Illinois Board of Higher Education and participation in this workshop/event will not be counted towards an approved IBHE program/course of instruction.
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