A little bit of background
A website and a book in progress by New Zealander, Melissa Davies.
"Having had the benefit of incredible mentors, family, friends and networks, I could see that young women were often struggling to find answers to the same questions I had as I worked through my career. Careering attempts to answer some of those questions, give women tools to manage their career, and showcase a diverse range of successful women to show that success doesn't always mean a top job, or more money - success is what you say it is!"
Melissa's own values are reflected in Careering with an insistence on diversity and inclusion, making sure language is neutral and inclusive, and where possible (and as our competency and understanding grows) using a kaupapa Maori approach, including Te Reo and making sure imagery reflects the real Aotearoa - women of all sizes, shapes, colours, religious beliefs, ethnicities, sexual orientation and ability. This has been challenging though - most images showcase skinny, light skinned women and we call BS on that! If we get it wrong, we want to know - this is an ongoing and concerted effort to be inclusive so please shout out if we get it wrong so we can learn and fix it!
Working alongside Melissa is the engaging Kat Malmus. Kat is originally from Germany with some great experience in event management, and lucky for us, she now calls New Zealand home. She completed her studies at the University of Canterbury while also working as a content creator, event manager, managing a Marketing collective, and a project co-ordinator - and now has just one job, as Customer Success lead at the Kiwi high-tech startup Aider.
The third, youngest and latest addition to the Careering team is Ruby Grave. After growing up in Dunedin most of her life, Ruby made the move back to her hometown, Christchurch to complete her studies at Rangi Ruru Girls’ School. Ruby has a passion for anything business related, picking up as many extra economics papers as possible and starting her own YES (Young Enterprise Scheme) business. Sometimes she can even be found googling how the economy is running, for fun on a Friday night.
"Having had the benefit of incredible mentors, family, friends and networks, I could see that young women were often struggling to find answers to the same questions I had as I worked through my career. Careering attempts to answer some of those questions, give women tools to manage their career, and showcase a diverse range of successful women to show that success doesn't always mean a top job, or more money - success is what you say it is!"
Melissa's own values are reflected in Careering with an insistence on diversity and inclusion, making sure language is neutral and inclusive, and where possible (and as our competency and understanding grows) using a kaupapa Maori approach, including Te Reo and making sure imagery reflects the real Aotearoa - women of all sizes, shapes, colours, religious beliefs, ethnicities, sexual orientation and ability. This has been challenging though - most images showcase skinny, light skinned women and we call BS on that! If we get it wrong, we want to know - this is an ongoing and concerted effort to be inclusive so please shout out if we get it wrong so we can learn and fix it!
Working alongside Melissa is the engaging Kat Malmus. Kat is originally from Germany with some great experience in event management, and lucky for us, she now calls New Zealand home. She completed her studies at the University of Canterbury while also working as a content creator, event manager, managing a Marketing collective, and a project co-ordinator - and now has just one job, as Customer Success lead at the Kiwi high-tech startup Aider.
The third, youngest and latest addition to the Careering team is Ruby Grave. After growing up in Dunedin most of her life, Ruby made the move back to her hometown, Christchurch to complete her studies at Rangi Ruru Girls’ School. Ruby has a passion for anything business related, picking up as many extra economics papers as possible and starting her own YES (Young Enterprise Scheme) business. Sometimes she can even be found googling how the economy is running, for fun on a Friday night.
here's what careering is all about
