Diversity hiring (bank -mnc) has gotten to a point where I am only dealing with female stakeholders now as opposed to 10 years ago where I was dealing only with male stakeholders. What a fantastic change it has been! (Not sarcasm)
All my bosses (and many times bosses of bosses) have been female. I work in tech.
Point is diversity hiring is working, we have more female representation in c-suite than ever before…
Of course, it was bound to. More hired females logically translates to more female representation in leadership.
IMO, this also means that there never was a big discrimination or opportunity problem after hiring (in promotions et al). They fixed the hiring pipeline and solved the supply-side bottleneck leading to more female representation in leadership.
Makes me wonder if solving this at an even more grassroots level will lead to even better results ie. ensuring more women are a part of the working economy and more women are educated.
4 interns in my team, 1 male and 3 are female. Only 1(Male) is from core CS Branch and rest are all from non CS branches.
The 3 are learning how to code in python and this 1 intern is blowing all the tasks that we are giving.
I can se...
This is something I've started to notice a lot now that whenever I go to a company's LinkedIn page, most of the recent hires have been a woman. I'm only talking about tech companies and MNCs and gender based hiring.
I've been on hiring ...
So, recently there is a surge of peeps from igdtuw posting about their placement and internship in LinkedIn Twitter(congratulations). And there are a lot of arguments and confrontations going on about diversity hiring, recession proof co...
Is it compulsory for companies to do diversity hiring? Does it apply to private companies? What categories fall under diversity hiring, and how do you know if you are eligible for diversity hire?