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Can’t Find Underrepresented Minorities for Tech Jobs?

Can’t Find Underrepresented Minorities for Tech Jobs?

Suggestions to reframe that always-erroneous statement and steps organizations can take to combat workplace -isms.

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Sheri Byrne-Haber
Aug 17, 2023
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Ruptured pipeline labeled “Candidate Pipeline”. Where the oil is spilling out “Underrepresented Minorities”
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At the end of September, the CEO of Wells Fargo publicly stated the following:

“[T]he unfortunate reality,” he wrote, echoing comments he had made on a video call with employees, “is that there is a very limited pool of Black talent to recruit from.”

As should have been easily predicted, the backlash was both swift and brutal. …

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