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Last month, our amazing Data Ops Engineer Vallimalar Karthick joined a panel with our friends at SheCanCode in their fantastic 'Tips for Returning or Pivoting to a Career in Tech' webinar. WATCH the full webinar below! 👀 Vallimalar joined our Data team approximately 6 months ago through our career returners programme and here shares valuable insight, wisdom, and words of encouragement for those who may be returning or considering a move into tech. A few insightful takeaways from Vallimalar: 🤔 Have a curiosity to learn 👩🏾💻 As technology keeps evolving, it's important to keep learning and developing your skills 👩🏼🏫 You don't need a computer science degree, there are lots of other ways to start your career in tech, such as bootcamps and certifications 🧐 Do a small project, test it and make it run - it can give you something to speak to employers about and showcases your curiosity to learn something new ⭐ When interviewing with a company use the STAR technique
Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming best-selling author Toby Mildon 📚 who hosted a truly inspiring virtual workshop for our colleagues 💡 In a fantastic interactive session, Toby broke down the concept of unconscious bias, helping us to identify biases in our own lives and how we can counter these to create a more inclusive environment. A huge thank you to Toby and everyone who came along! 👏 #LifeAtTheVeryGroup #UnconsciousBias #Inclusion #DiversityAndInclusion
We recently launched a new learning platform called Udemy to help our teammates learn anywhere, anytime. There's over 7,000 free courses to pick from; think technical skills to grow in role 👩💻 learning new languages or even baking 🧁, there’s something for everyone! We caught up with service desk analyst, Stephen, who's been getting to grips with the platform, to find out how he's finding life with Udemy! #VeryAmbitious
SheCanCode caught up with Claire Hunwick (and Merlin! 🐶) to find out what life is like as a product owner at Very. We got the inside scoop on a recent project that brought together a scrum team of Very and Amazon Web Service data people to work on a series of proof of concepts 💡 70 experiments, four different algorithms and eight million+ forecasts later, we have an award-winning data team! 🏆
Earlier this week we kicked off the biggest shopping event of the Very year, Black Friday! 🖤 A month of deals and offers, and that's not just for our customers. Our teammates get colleague discount on top of many of the offers onsite which is always handy at this time of year when the Christmas lists are under-way. Find out more about our #VeryPerks right here: https://theverygroup.jobs/life-at-tvg/benefits #LifeAtTheVeryGroup
Say hello to some of our newest teammates; our tech and finance grads 👋 This ambitious bunch started with us a few weeks ago and are already settling in well to #LifeAtTheVeryGroup. They’re all here to help us on our mission of helping families get more out of life ❤
Last week we had the brilliant Judi Love dial in to a special table talk with our head of CEO office and chair of RAVE (Race at Very network) Terence Mensah. We heard about her life before Loose Women, her inspirations, her collections on very.co.uk and thoughts on Black History Month. "I love the way Very just get me! It's a relationship and that's been amazing. At no point I've felt like it's 'just because', we're growing and learning together." 💖
Here at Very you can work with, and learn from, some of the greatest minds across retail, tech and payments... but don't just take our word for it! Matt Grest, our CIO, was named one of Retail Week’s top 50 digital leaders in retail 👏 Matt is leading our ambitious tech team through a multi-year tech transformation roadmap (one of the biggest in our history!) and is looking for engineers, architects and more to join the team. Want in? Check out our latest roles
Great to see our CIO Matt Grest recognised in Computing IT Leaders 100 - a list of the most influential IT leaders in the UK, earlier this week ✨ Matt's care for his team, supportive working environments, and the opportunities he's creating for career growth during our tech and data transformation has earned him a spot on this credible list. Well done Matt 👏 #VeryProud
Our teammates have spoken 🎉 We've been named one of Retail Week x Glassdoor's best UK retailers to work for in 2022 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Huge thanks to our amazing people for sharing your views on what #LifeAtTheVeryGroup is all about on Glassdoor and helping us hit number 12 on the list.
