Saturday 16 June 2012

Colleen Abastillas-Blake, Senior HR Director


Picture this:    There are xxx women in the top managerial and operational positions of high—tech management jobs.
The success rate is xxx percent, of programs relating to the mainstreaming of women in top management.
The overall percentage of women in the total work force for IT jobs is xxx.
Mentoring, coaching, peer reviews, training, re-training:  how effective are these?
At San Jose, California, the Brocade Communications Systems sponsored the Corporate Women’s Initiative Consortium to look into these issues relating to women. The company’s senior HR director, Colleen Blake, said the Consortium will try to find means to measure the results of programs. 
She is the eldest daughter of Norma Go-Abastillas.  Colleen herself has three daughters, and predicts that it will still be an uphill climb for them to reach top jobs.  Congratulations to Norma’s family, for hurdling the barriers for women to “break the glass ceiling”!  
(See article, SanJose.bizjournals.com, 1st June 2012).

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