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Anonymous — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:26:56 +0000

A Latina education major at a large university once told me that some of the local school districts never contacted their Hispanic student organization or provided any information about opportunities–yet these same districts were wringing their hands about “how can we recruit teachers of color.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:06:48 +0000

When I read the original question , my first reaction was that it sounded like what I’ve heard many times in the past “…we don’t know where to look to find (fill in the blank with the minority group of your choice)…”. What’s interesting, and very telling, is that if we were talking about a new business or a technical opportunity we would put the effort into figuring this out. We would not allow ourselves to be detoured by “I don’t know.”. However, as time goes on I hope this stumbling block continues to decrease in frequency and significance.

Anyway, I am a Black technical professional. In the past when I was involved in recruiting, we got involved in minority-focused technical groups, such as NSBE (National Society of Black Engineers), SHPE (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers), AISES (American Indian Science and Engineering Society), etc. If you are looking for MBA’s, there is the NBMA (National Black MBA Association), NSHMBA (National Society of Hispanic MBA’s), etc. There are many groups and societies out there, but you need to do some homework to figure out what’s best for your situation.

I believe all of the groups I mentioned, and clearly many others, have yearly conventions and job fairs. These of great places to talk to students and faculty and begin the process of developing long term relationships.

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