Wanda Weigert, director of Globant: “We need to understand what young people want and how to keep them in the country”

The executive director of Globant Argentina, Wanda Weigert, he asked to understand what the needs of young people are “so that they remain and not leave” the country, during the Democracy and Development meeting, organized by Clarín.

“Growth is there, but it has its complexities. You need to understand what young people want and how to get them to stay and don’t go. It’s a competitive wage policy, but they’re also looking for flexibility, “she explained.

In this sense, he said that young people “try to work from where they want, have the benefits they want and choose who they want to work for”. “All that cultural part has to be understood too,” she said.

On the other hand, he referred to the gender difference in the industry and asked “break that barrier to industry”.

“It’s a complex matter. It happens all over the world. Statistics in the region and around the world say that 30% are women and 70% are men. There are many paradigms that need to be broken. Like what tough competitions are for. men and soft ones for women. This means that there is a first barrier for the industry, “he analyzed.

“Every company in the industry wants talent, gender doesn’t matter. On the contrary, we want more diversity to better understand the products that consumers will have,” he added.

In this regard, he asked “to work in all phases” because “later in the universities there is also that difference between men and women”

“You have to go to secondary school and prove that careers in difficult sciences are suitable and easy. And then accompany women in their professional process,” she said.

When asked about the most innovative and inspiring project they have at Globant today, he said it’s the most relevant trend in the metaverse.

“We are working a lot with the word of the moment, the metaverse. We were the first company to create a study on the metaverse. We are bringing many brands to have their experience or creating metaverses for punctual expressions,” he analyzed.

“Almost all organizations today are already thinking about how I will be, what I should do, how I should go there … This is our main goal,” he concluded.

Weigert is the new CEO of Globant, a position for which she was appointed earlier this month. He has been with the company for over twenty years.

After the news went public, Weigert expressed his goals for the company: “We want to keep growing, bringing more opportunities across the country and innovating so our customers deepen their reinvention journey.”

“Argentina is a key place for us: it is our home, the place where we were born and where we expanded into the world. Today we have more than 5,000 Globers here, creating solutions for organizations around the world, ”she pointed out.

This year the cycle Democracy and development proposes to discuss how to get Argentina back on the road to development.

The first two meetings have already taken place. The first, on 17 May, analyzed the Basis for growth, with one table focusing on the economy and another on legal certainty.

The second was on June 16 and dealt with human and physical capital, education and infrastructure needed for development.

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