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Personal Maps - A Team Building Exercise

11 June 202011 June 2020 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

Knowing the people you work closely with is one of the keys to successful collaboration. Now that we are migrating to remote working, it can be hard to connect with colleagues on a personal level and truly leverage the skills, motivation, and qualities of each team members. I have recently successfully tested a simple yet […]

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Tech & Gender Equality - my column on Yliopisto-Lehti

22 December 201922 December 2019 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

Few months ago I left my job in IT to pursue a fabulous opportunity in the humanitarian sector at Plan International. I still work as a project manager of digital projects, but with a focus on children's rights and gender equality. The last months have been so exciting and full of discoveries that they deserve […]

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Secret Parenting: My Positive Experience And Tips To Improve Work-Life Balance

23 May 201923 May 2019 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

A couple of days ago I came across this interesting article on work-life balance by economist Emily Oster, calling out the phenomenon of secret parenting. Oster coined the definition as the unhealthy habit - often forced by the environment more than personal values - of hiding family commitments and restrictions on the workplace. In other […]

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This Twitter Thread Shows Why Academia Is Yet Not Safe For Women

20 May 201920 May 2019 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

In 2019, academic institutions are still willing to turn a blind eye when it comes to sexual harassment. It doesn't matter if terrifying stats keep being published. No one is willing to take a serious stand. Reality is, women and men have complete different experiences of a career in academia. I never met any context […]

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Why The Childcare Benefit Does Not Click With Me

23 April 201923 April 2019 Paola Elefante 1 Comment

In Finland, if a child under 10 years old gets sick with a minor illness, a working parent can stay up to 4 days home to care for her. Nowadays, many employers in Finland work with childcare companies like Stella or Hoivanet to grant childcare benefits to the their employees. It works as follows: if […]

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Well-being or ability to work?

25 January 201925 January 2019 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

Since fall 2016, I'm a regular contributor to the magazine Yliopisto-lehti. I write columns, based on my experiences as a professional, an expat, and even simply as myself. Articles are translated and published in Finnish, but I'll be publishing a translation of my pieces in English here on my blog. Well-being or ability to work? […]

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An Advent Calendar for Developers: day 19 to 24

17 January 201817 January 2018 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

I spent the past year or so accumulating nice resources for data scientists and developers, and I've decided to collect them for everyone to enjoy. If you want to get one in your feed every day during the Christmas period, make sure to follow my Twitter or my LinkedIn profile. In any case, I'll be collecting them in four […]

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An Advent Calendar for Developers: day 13 to 18

19 December 201719 December 2017 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

I spent the past year or so accumulating nice resources for data scientists and developers, and I've decided to collect them for everyone to enjoy. If you want to get one in your feed every day during the Christmas period, make sure to follow my Twitter or my LinkedIn profile. In any case, I'll be collecting them in four […]

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An Advent Calendar for Developers: day 7 to 12

15 December 201715 December 2017 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

I spent the past year or so accumulating nice resources for data scientists and developers, and I've decided to collect them for everyone to enjoy. If you want to get one in your feed every day during the Christmas period, make sure to follow my Twitter or my LinkedIn profile. In any case, I'll be collecting them in four […]

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An Advent Calendar for Developers: day 1 to 6

6 December 20176 December 2017 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

I spent the past year or so accumulating nice resources for data scientists and developers, and I've decided to collect them for everyone to enjoy. If you want to get one in your feed every day during the Christmas period, make sure to follow my Twitter or my LinkedIn profile. In any case, I'll be […]

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