Hatching a plan to make 2024 the year that everything changed for Women-in-Tech

“When my husband passed away, I became the sole provider for four kids. I wanted to get into tech to better support my family, but the environment just wasn’t inclusive to women like me.”

“I was afraid to try again. In the previous tech skills programme that I joined, I was the only woman in a group of 30 of us retraining in software. I really struggled to be heard, so eventually I just left.”

“I was scared in the beginning; having never worked in the tech industry before I didn’t know where to start. All I ever got were rejections. You have to have a really thick skin.”

These are the words of three women whose lives have been changed by Hatch Digital. Three of many hundreds whose careers have been transformed by an organisation that’s forcing the tech industry to think differently, embrace change, and value people based on their potential, rather than what it says – or doesn’t say - on their CV.

Because whilst there’s a very limited number of people with the ‘right’ CVs in the UK talent market today, there’s an infinite number of people with the right potential to drive this industry forward.

Day-in, day-out, employers are navigating the increasing challenges associated with this global talent shortage; high recruitment fees for averagely qualified talent; limited diversity; heavy reliance on tech consultants to supplement demand; internal teams diverted towards lengthy recruitment cycles & new-starter training; low retention levels & reactive replacements.

Why are we all still putting up with it, we hear you ask? Well, quite simply, because despite a recognised shift in the way people acquire new skills today, there’s been no corresponding evolution in the way those skills are qualified for employment. Most hiring managers are still reliant on the same old recruitment tools they’ve been using for decades.

Hatch Digital is here to tell you there’s another way of doing things. One that’s more scalable, sustainable, cost-effective, and truly impacts diversity & inclusion.

Whether you’re looking to drive representation for women or other under-represented demographics in tech across your workforce, hire & train talent to thrive within the confines of a particularly niche tech stack, reskill current employees. or build latent digital skills within existing headcount to meet future periods of high demand, Hatch is supporting its customers across the tech talent agenda.

At the heart of it all sits a tech-driven model that presents a very genuine alternative to CV-led hiring, and pairs it with project-based training that takes your talent beyond the basics, favouring principles over technologies in order to instil versatility, adaptability & confidence before embedding them seamlessly into your workforce.

And because ditching CVs promotes such inclusion at point-of-application, Hatch is driving diversity of talent that’s not being replicated anywhere else. Supporting clients such as Capgemini, Unilever and giffgaff with disability & neuroinclusion, female representation, racial equality, localised social mobility and non-graduate hiring.

Having been awarded Supplier of the Year 2023 at the Women in Tech UK Employer Awards, Hatch have now decided to gear the social impact they’re driving into really shifting the dial for Women-in-Tech this year. Their #2024in2024 initiative is a mission-driven campaign to train & place 2,024 women into tech roles through their model in 2024. All they need the industry to do is hire them.