Here are some avenues of funding available to support organisations hiring digital/tech interns in Aotearoa. Including government schemes: Callaghan Innovation R&D Experience Grants, TPK cadetships and MSD flexi-wage. Dunedin has it’s own JobDun programme too.

Congratulations, you’re a mentor! This is a great opportunity for you to use your knowledge and experience to help guide a mentee (yes, they are called the mentee!). It is a great growth opportunity for both, but it can be daunting. Where do you start?

In a recent event organised by Summer of Tech, the panellists shared their personal stories and experiences about embracing one's authentic self at work, especially for those who identify as LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent or have lived disabilities.

Employees with ADHD or neurodiversity can need a little extra support and tools to make them shine. Understanding how different team members approach a task or project and what level of detail or context you need to provide can lead to more successful outcomes for your next project.

Testing students to find out their skills and skill level is time consuming for both students and employers. There is little value to students from typical tests unless they get the role. Exercism.io provides a platform for students to prove their ability while learning and getting feedback on their skills. Employers can ensure that a student's ability is at their preferred standard.

Supporting students who are hard of hearing is equivalent to supporting a remote worker. Technology advances and support from MSD enable employers to provide support for those who are hard of hearing via online meetings and interpreters. There is only a slight shift required in employers' behaviour to support hard of hearing team members.

Deliberate Practice is an effective way to help individuals and teams learn and improve their skills. Learning together as a cohort, and employing Deliberate Practice techniques is a useful way to quickly build knowledge within a team of complex tasks and problems

Perpetual Learning is about providing feedback to help people build their mental models. Mob Programming and Peer Programming are key tools to accelerate your team's learning using advanced cognitive psychology techniques.

Self-awareness is a superpower for those who invest time in creating habits to enable more reflection and constructive feedback.

If you’re keen to improve your inclusive hiring practice, you’ll need to review your interview process to ensure it caters for all your potential applicants. We take a look at ways to improve your inclusive interview practice.

You’ll likely have many processes and structures in place to support your employees at present, but how do you communicate these to future employees? And how could you build on them to attract an even more diverse workforce? We take a look at ways to improve your inclusive hiring practice.

At Summer of Tech, we have worked with hundreds of employers to help them hire tech juniors. Over thousands of conversations, we've recognised three key challenges of hiring good people.

We asked Summer of Tech volunteer and CV reviewer Andrew Barret, a Principal Engineer at WiseAlpha, for some top tips on acing your CV and advice for future CV reviewers.

Annie Foote is a second-year student studying a Bachelor of Engineering, majoring in Cyber Engineering at Victoria University. At the end of her first year in 2022, she landed a Security internship at Helix Security Services.

Courteney is one of our talented Summer of Tech mentors (and 2017 alumni) who we recently caught up to discuss LGBTQI+ and neurodivergence in tech. Now a Power Platform Functional Consultant at Datacom, she generously shares her experience and advice with us about identity disclosure and how to ask for support at work.