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In reply to the discussion: Race, diversity [View all]1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)34. Gee ...
though he didn't seem so worried about white women getting jobs.
I wonder why?
Regarding the "pool point" ... having worked in HR for a really long time, this is the single biggest fight that I have had with hiring authorities ... mono-chromatic/mono-gendered hiring pools. They interview 25 people for a job, none of which are PoC (or women), and they blank as to why their department is comprised of white males.
Then, they defend with ... "While we just can't seem to get PoC (women) to apply!" And the extent of their advertising for the post is putting the job up on the company website and accepting referrals from current employees.
I, once, bet an Engineering hiring manager (a staunch opponent of Affirmative Action because it made him hire lesser qualified, though PoC and female candidates) that if he allowed me to work with him, he would (at no additional cost) more than triple his 1st cut/screening pool of applicants (significantly improving the caliber of candidates for his consideration) AND, after the 1st screening, the remaining pool would have PoC and women (something that had never happened).
While the hiring manager ended up a white male for the position, 3 of the 5 candidates interviewed were, either, PoC or women. AND, the runner-up candidate was a Hispanic woman that the hiring manager was so impressed with, he made her an offer for another, higher status position.
During our bet settlement dinner, we discussed the recruitment and I told that this was exactly how Affirmative Action was supposed to work ... expand the pool to include PoC and women, by AFFIRMATIVELY marketing to them, then hire the best qualified.
By the time I left that company, he was a great advocate for Affirmative Action ... to the point that he had established relationships with 3 HBCUs, known to produce quality Engineering grads.
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I just wrote a OP for GD that I deleted, titled "Listen up, you racist assholes"
randys1
Jan 2015
#18
Continued vigilance in the areas noted to have a lack of diversity... Viligilance including ...
uponit7771
Jan 2015
#26