Tech Talk

20 Oct

Posted at 10:41h in News 2, Tech Talk by
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I can’t fully remember when I first recognized that something to do with tech “diversity” efforts were a bit… off. I think it was during the first Women Techmakers Summit. It was early 2014, and Google put on this relatively large conference at the Mountain View campus for to celebrate International Women’s Day. I remember being impressed at the scale, while also thinking that Google had never done anything approaching that for Black History Month. The bones the black folks were thrown were some changes in the menus and some one-off events the Black Googler Network put together.

15 Oct

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The CEOs and directors of Blendoor, Jopwell and Jazz.co discuss using tech to narrow the gap in diversity hires Sure, there are issues with diversity hiring, especially in the technology industry, but there are a host of other challenges facing the recruitment industry these days. With a demographic shift, an aging workforce, more remote and outsourced work, and millennials joining the workforce in droves, finding talent and finding jobs has become a much more complex endeavor. Traditional recruitment methods are becoming outdated as online profiles replace résumés, mobile first jobsearch becomes the norm, and referrals become more commonplace.