Perficient Celebrates the Graduation of Our Sixth Bright Paths Program Cohort Perficient’s Bright Paths Program in Dallas recently concluded, and we are proud to announce the graduation of 26 dedicated students from the program! The Bright Paths Program is designed to advance STEM education and career opportunities for underrepresented constituencies and communities, working towards closing […]
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How Tyre Sellers Found His Passion Through Mentorship
At Perficient, we’re proud to offer leadership opportunities for all colleagues to make a difference. Our Bright Paths Program gives colleagues the opportunity to serve as a mentor to students as they complete a 16-week custom coding bootcamp and kickstart their careers in tech. Taking a leap to grow your professional skillsets can be […]
Rachel Boyd Pays It Forward Through Mentorship
Perficient provides our colleagues with the support and resources they need to grow both personally and professionally while enabling them to make a difference for our clients, colleagues, and communities. Rachel Boyd, a business consultant on our Detroit team, is a great example of building a career at Perficient and taking on opportunities to thrive […]
Recent Giving ERG Events Inspire Action Among Global Colleagues and Showcase Passion for Giving Back
Our Perficient Giving ERG reflects our long-standing commitment to being a philanthropic organization with colleagues who are passionate about giving back to the communities in which we live and work. This group is driven by colleagues who join together based on common interests or backgrounds, all focused on making a positive difference in the world. […]
Emily Lord Spreads Her Wings in Perficient’s Sitecore Practice
As a senior project manager, Emily Lord helps deliver exceptional customer experiences to our clients. Her expertise on our Sitecore team has driven incredible results that make a real difference for our clients and their customers. The hard work and dedication of the colleagues in our Sitecore practice led Perficient to recently be recognized with a […]
Women in Tech Recognizes Global Excellence in Global Career Panel
This is the second blog in a series covering our Women in Tech ERG’s ongoing career growth panels. Read the first blog in the series here. Our Women in Tech ERG holds a strong commitment to promoting and enabling career growth and progression for all Perficient colleagues. To support this goal, the WiT ERG has […]
Current & Future Leaders – Practice Empathy for Effective Leadership
We all know the importance of leadership and the responsibility that comes with it. Many skills are important for leadership, but that is not all. The missing crucial aspect is “EMPATHY.” So, let’s explore it further and see what Empathy is all about. So as we begin our exploration, let us first get aligned on […]
Perficient WIT Group Shares Advice for Women Taking a Job in Technology
Perficient Colleagues Share How to Build a Successful Career in Technology We recently asked the Women in Tech group at Perficient what advice they would give for a woman hoping to build a career in the technology industry and their thoughtful advice was both inspirational and actionable. Demonstrate Expertise The biggest theme, having confidence in […]
Minneapolis Colleagues Support Technovation
Colleagues give their time and skills to help girls become the next tech entrepreneurs and leaders by mentoring at Technovation. Setting the Stage for the Future Did you know that engineers are the second-largest STEM occupational group, but that only one in seven engineers is female? This US Department of Commerce statistic is one of […]
Mentoring: The Vital 20 Percent in Individual Learning and Change
On December 16, 1675, scientists of the Royal Society gathered to hear Isaac Newton’s new latest theory on the properties of light. Robert Hooke, the Society’s Curator of Experiments was in the audience and proclaimed that the essence of Newton’s paper was already captured in Hooke’s published book and that Newton would benefit from additional […]