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20 May

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Every company says they promote diversity and every company says that employees are their most important assets. I just went through the job search process and I wanted to share my recent diversity experiences. Diversity doesn’t always come across the way you think it is and it surprised me in my recent search. What I encountered as it relates to diversity was a first. As I reported in the last post, I recently joined a mid-sized technology company leading an HR department.

19 May

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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First Data Corporation, the global leader in payment technology and services solutions, earned inclusion in DiversityInc’s just-published list of “25 Noteworthy Companies” for its wide-ranging efforts to create a diverse workforce. The honor was based on several factors, including demographics of employees and new hires, promotions into management positions, employee-resource groups, manager participation in cross-cultural mentoring, and a strong commitment by senior leadership.

18 May

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This morning at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Walker & Co. founder Tristan Walker spoke about bringing more diversity to Silicon Valley and his plan to reach 5,000 black and Latina/o students this next year through his Code2040 program. The former Foursquare exec and co-founder of Code2040 also runs the aforementioned Walker & Co., a health and beauty startup with a focus on people of color. Its first product, Bevel is a razor targeted towards those with coarse or curly hair.

18 May

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In May 2014, Google became one of the first technology companies to release a report with its employee diversity figures. This began a trend among fellow tech titans in what has become one of the most talked-about movements in Silicon Valley and beyond. Google’s data about its employee demographics revealed an overwhelmingly nondiverse employee base: the search giant’s statistics showed a gender breakdown of 70% male employees and just 30% female employees, and a workforce that is more than 60% white. Other companies like Apple, Facebook and Twitter followed suit and released their own information. Perhaps not surprisingly, their collective numbers prove the technology industry has a big diversity problem.

15 May

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Intel will invest $5 million over the next five years in a new pilot program to teach computer science to high school students in the Oakland Unified School District. If successful, the program could become a national model for technology companies to groom the next generation of computer scientists, creating a new pathway for underrepresented minorities and women into the technology industry, Brian Krzanich told USA TODAY in an exclusive interview this week.