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Successful Women: Ann Brice

Social culture “decides” women should not work in the IT field. Traditionally, women are treated as less logical and less smart than men. In men’s mind, women are supposed to be beautiful and not serious at all. Thus, even though the salary is high, not many women want to work in this filed. However, Ann Brice, the instructor of IT-Web/Soft Development in ***, love working in this field.

“I love what I do, I love Math, I love working with people, I love solving IT problems, and the most important thing, I love fortune”, said by Ann. Ann wants to use her optimistic attitude to encourage more young women attend to this field. When asked her how to furnish IT development, she said: “using social media to makes IT looks cool is a way to attract students”. If young women think it is cool, they will select IT-Web development as their career goals.

Ann helps women to be successful

Ann aims to help women get success in IT field. “Women in the field are determined to be successful”, said by Ann. Why women can get success in IT field? Ann said: “women can get along well with others. They can manage people in their groups and will be easy to get help from men.” In addition, only “a few” women choose IT as their career goal, which make them get jobs easily.  This is a great opportunity for one’s career. 

Currently, there are 6 women get involved in the ***IT-Web program, and the total number of the program students is sixty. In order to help women know more about the current marketing phenomenon in IT-Web field, Ann goes to local middle school and high school as a volunteer to advertise the benefits that women can get if they choose it, as well as helps female students understand men and women are equal smart and women also have logical thinking ability.  

Successful Women: Angie Mattison

Angie Mattison, who is a part-time student at both **** and ****. Now, she has two full time jobs, taking care of her five 5 kids at home and working at Domestic Abuse Introduction Program in Bluff Country Family Resources. Every week, she needs to work for 54 hours and study for 6 hours. Working at Bluff Country Family Resources for 32 hours and teaching fifteen students piano classes at night respectively. She is a successful woman who can balance her work, study, and family life together.

Career Services help Angie to be a successful women

Getting married, having five kids, staying at home for almost 20 years, most recent employment was in 2008, and this semester is the first semester that Angie goes back to school. Except having classes, Angie wants to have a full time job. But how to find a satisfied job with an unfinished bachelor degree (the major is women gender sexuality) and long gap is a question. Even worse, all the companies and organizations that she worked before are closed. From 2006 to 2008, she worked at an adult daycare as a CAN (certify nurse assistant which closed a few years before. From 2009, about 6 months, work as a nursery assistant at Home Health Care and it also closed right now. From middle in the 2010 until fall 2011, working at La Crosse Daycare Center as a teacher and it also closed at last summer. Thus, there will be no reference in her resume and this is the reason why she came to Career Services to ask for help.

Career Service: help her write the resume, bring attention to strength. Reference from patients and piano parents.  Outline, recommendation, provide website, interview skills, how to write a resume, editing resume, how to write a cover letter, still put them (explain situation), why has a gap employment in the history. She got six interviews within two weeks and got three offers. Offers that she got: La Crosse County: Health Care Center (positions: better hours, paid more, nursery assistant) Gunderson, Bluff Country Family Resources, and Nursing Home. Still choose the position at the Bluff Country Family Resources, even though less money, more hours than La Crosse County, because she has passion in this job and it is flexible, 32 hours a week is not too much.

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