How can organizations diversify their workforces and ensure a continuous pipeline of top-performing employees Ernst & Young, No. 6 in The 2012 Fair360, formerly DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity, takes a proactive approach and reaches out to students before they even choose a college or a major.
The Big Four professional-services firm, which must aggressively compete for new talent in its industry, opened the doors of its New York City headquarters this summer to 100 rising high-school juniors from New Brunswick and Piscataway, N.J. For two days, the students were able to discover firsthand what it’s like to be an accountant at Ernst & Young and the opportunities the profession can provide.
The students are members of the Rutgers Future Scholars (RFS) Class of 2017. The program’s mission is to increase the number of academically ambitious high-school graduates who come from low-income backgrounds by helping them meet college-admittance standards. RFS also provides scholarships to those who attend Rutgers. Students are accepted into the program in seventh grade from Newark, Camden, New Brunswick and Piscataway, N.J. Currently, there are about 800 scholars in grades 811.
