Why do you think our industry is struggling to find minority talent? Been working for a couple years now and am always in a sea of vanilla...

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Lack of recruiting/poor recruiting practices. I asked HR and was told "we're not able to find qualified candidates from those schools" referring to HBCUs in the DC area. Ummmm...what?!

I think there is a smaller pool to select from to begin with. In my immediate circle of friends say out of 20 people, I am the only one in this industry. There are multiple educators, entrepreneurs, and HR folks

Yeah we don't study accounting and the bulk of us who do come from schools that are not heavily recruited (I.e hbcus or smaller colleges)

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