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22 May

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he Congressional Black Caucus wants the tech industry to focus its innovative energy on building a more diverse workforce. The 46-member caucus' diversity task force hosts its CBC Tech 2020 event in Washington on Tuesday to let tech giants know that the influential group is looking for results. Over the next five years, about 1.4 million new tech industry jobs are expected to be created, according to estimates from the Level Playing Field Institute. "We want to work with our friends (in the tech industry) to try to ensure that a large segment of the new hires are African Americans," said Rep. G. K. Butterfield, D-N.C., the caucus chairman and task force member.

21 May

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Companies often face a severe reality check when they look at how white and male their workforce remains, in spite of their claims of proper efforts at diversity. The problem is so bad that one entrepreneur has developed a software tool directly aimed at giving them the lowdown on it, and an exact system for urgently and sustainably doing something about it. Katapult, a tool described as a ‘Salesforce meets LinkedIn LNKD +0.24%, meets diversity’, is the creation of businesswoman Andrea Hoffman, the founder of consultancy Culture Shift Labs. Asked which industries are struggling with employing a diverse workforce, Hoffman says “most” are. She cites the technology industry and banking as two of the most serious examples.

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.