Tarin
Rickett
Software Engineer at Reddit
"Lifting as You Climb: How Giving Back Can Propel Your Career"
"Lifting as You Climb: How Giving Back Can Propel Your Career"
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Session: Lifting as You Climb: How Giving Back Can Propel Your Career
What if the secret to growing your career wasn't about climbing alone, but about bringing others with you? In this session, we'll dive into how using your skills for good– through volunteering like mentorship, advocacy, and community building– can be a powerful catalyst for your own career growth. We'll connect giving back to getting ahead, showing you how this work naturally expands your network, develops your leadership, builds your personal brand, and helps you find deeper purpose.You’ll get actionable steps on how to identify the technical and soft skills you already have, and how to start applying them to communities that need them most. Because when we lift others, we rise together.
Key Takeaways
- Skilled volunteering
- Social impact
- Career growth
Bio
Tarin Rickett is a Software Engineer with nearly a decade of experience at companies like Reddit and LinkedIn. Throughout her career, she has participated in social impact programs ranging from on-the-job mentorship to global advising roles. Today, she volunteers as Chief of Staff at Women in Tech UK and as a global Advisor with the Women's Alliance for Knowledge Exchange.