Hey you lovely lot……My whine this week is I ended up back in hospital with my stomach from Sunday through to Tuesday. The whole time I was there they couldn’t get me a bed, so it was a bit of a nightmare!!! Thankfully I was well enough to come home on Tuesday morning, I’ve had a proper sleep & I’m feeling much more like myself now ✨💃🏼 Now for the wins…Tomorrow I’m off to London for the day! 💃🏼 get there about 12 go straight for lunch with my managers & then to a company-wide event at a hotel… so technically it’s a work day, but not really any work…. I’ll take that! 😂 And of course… the countdown to RAISE is on! I can’t wait….I’m sooooo excited to catch up with everyone who’s going, see everything our gorgeous @Sian Kelly Guy has worked so hard on, and I’m super for the after-party too. 🤣💃 Right, over to you lovely lot…. What’s your win this week? Big or small, I want to hear it…..And what’s your whine? Get it off your chest… work, kids, life, technology behaving like technology usually does…

It’s a bit of a late one from me because I’m on the train home after spending the day in London for a work event.…. What a day ✨💃🏼🎉❤️ Great weather, lovely people, loads of exciting conversations… and then they completely caught me off guard.…….. They’ve asked me to relocate to Barcelona in January 2027 to lead the community in the new office they’re opening out there. 🤯🇪🇸 I wasn’t expecting that conversation!!!!!! There’s obviously loads to think about. Finn will be in his final year of A Levels, so he comes first. I’m already trying to work out how I could make it work by travelling backwards and forwards until he’s finished because I don’t want to disrupt such an important year for him.….. It’s just mad to think where I was a few months ago.….. Now I’ve got Paris next week, I’m organising a Remobi - Women in Tech event in Germany later this year, travelling around meeting incredible people, helping grow communities across Europe… and now I’m being asked if I’d relocate to Barcelona.… what is my life?! 🤣….. there’s never a dull moment that’s for sure!!! I’m excited, a little bit terrified, and very very qvery grateful….. Sometimes life really does throw opportunities at you when you least expect them. Anyway… I’m absolutely shattered, so I’m going to get home, give Finn & Blacky-Chan a cuddle and let all of this sink in. ❤️…….i hope you’ve all had a lovely week xxx

I really enjoyed this news piece - not surprised by Grok results, which made me laugh out loud as well as cry. However, Claude made me think as well - a peaceful homogeneous society? I would crave diversity! What do you think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDgRa74DpJE

What a fantastic session with Aimee! Those who joined us, what did you enjoy most? Here's the link: https://www.skool.com/women-in-tech-power-network/classroom/f8cdf7b3?md=3084e751724c460bb38989b6cc71790b Please do share you thoughts ❤️ Who else would you like me to invite? I need to get in touch with Mike Wooldridge (Oxford AI Professor and now FRS!!) again to get a date in the diary for him to speak to us, so I'll do that now. Happy Monday and Greetings from Juan Les Pins! Lots of love Sue xxx

I've been looking for my next role for a few weeks now, and it's an interesting time to be looking! Trying to do some of the recommended things to find work, but it's slow, and often feel like I'm posting into a void. The last few months before I finished at my last company were incredibly intense and stressful, it was a chaotic and difficult environment. So it's been good to have some time to recover from all of that. I have loved having time for hour long walks with our dog, catching up with friends and being creative. The job search side has been less fun! I've applied for a few things where I thought I was a good match and have been rejected or don't hear anything. I'm trying to upskill and pivot from a traditional test manager role to modern quality engineering by learning test automation, and increasing my technical skills in api testing/accessibility/performance testing/testing with ai. There's so much I could potentially learn, what skills do you think I should focus on? This week I took the plunge to upgrade claude to cowork and code, to make my job search more efficient and to code an app to create automated tests for. Using cowork to create the app is going well, going step by step, and asking lots of questions. I'm less impressed with cowork for my job search/career pivot project. It was good at asking questions about my cv where details were too light/or my impact wasn't clear. It's not been so good in setting up a daily task to identify roles to apply for or companies to speculatively apply to. Still working through these challenges. Cowork hasn't really saved me any time yet on this, just given me another thing to sort out and test!! I've updated my cv, multiple times over the last few weeks, and have created a version with cowork this week. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the following areas: - I'm in my mid 50's, a couple of years ago I had a career coach who advised that I shouldn't include all my experience or the numbers of years I've been in testing. Since then I've put 20+ years in my personal statement. In one of the chats with claude cowork it told me I should put 26 years as I'd earned it and should own it! Have discussed with my husband and he's not sure I should be so specific. - Should I include my interests? Does anyone pay attention to these. - For leadership areas: should I include something around the challenges of leadership and managing teams?