WiT-ACE (Women in Technology – Accelerated Career Experiences) has said that Ignite, its annual virtual career fair for women finally concluded last week with more than 1000 job openings for women professionals by over 20+ employers.
According to a statement, “This year’s Ignite drew participation from over 29000 women and saw highly coveted employers like Google, Aditya Birla Group, Firstsource, Fiserv, CitiusTech, IBM, Meta, PWC, TransUnion, AkzoNobel, Brillio, HDFC Bank, S&P Global, TCS, Walmart Global Tech India, Crisil, Fullerton India, Kotak, Nasdaq and PayU, with some of them continuing their participation from last year, reaffirming their commitment towards creating more gender balanced workplaces by offering jobs for women at the fair. These jobs were offered in diverse domains like technology, marketing, HR, Supply Chain, finance, and HR, and covered a wide range of industries including IT, ITeS, BFSI, FinTech, Finance and HealthCare.”
“In just two years, Ignite has emerged as the year’s most sought after event for women professionals and job seekers in India. We are immensely grateful to our partners and industry participants for their support in making this year’s fair a huge success once again and we remain confident that as stakeholders in India’s progress, we can all come together through initiatives like these to bring a stable change in our workplaces with much better representation of women,” said Anuranjita Kumar, Founder and CEO of WiT-ACE.
According to Anuradha Arora, Talent Engagement Lead at Google India, “Avenues and forums like WiT-ACE Ignite 2021 are the need of the hour where employers get an opportunity to engage with diverse talent, specifically women in Tech. The virtual experience couldn’t have been more seamless, and we look forward to such future events!”
Usha Srikanth, VP & Senior Partner, Sectors – CIC India at IBM Consulting, added, “We are excited to partner with WiT-ACE for the Ignite Career Fair. Our journey so far has been wonderful from a perspective of receiving profiles of women in technology, for a myriad of roles that we are looking to hire – Data, Cloud, Customer Transformation, Automation, SAP. The virtual career fair has come as a very innovative solution in the pandemic era and we are looking forward to some successful outcomes from this fair.”
Speaking about the career fair, Jacob George, Director & Head HR, TransUnion Global Capability Center (GCC) in India said, “The WiT-ACE Ignite 2021 Career Fair gave us a platform to connect virtually with a lot of women professionals. This career fair provided a realistic event experience, an easy-to-host virtual booth, good candidate traffic, measurable results and aligns well with our DEI focus.
“Ignite is enabling women to get access to a host of opportunities on a common platform, and connecting them to organisations that are committed to providing equal and ample opportunity to women. This symbiosis is at the core of the success of this platform and plays a significant role in influencing the gender diversity of corporate India,” shared Shuchika Sahay, Chief Human Resources Officer, Firstsource.
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