Study: Companies Don’t Spend Enough Time Recruiting at HBCUs
The strategies Fortune 400 companies and government agencies use when looking to recruit new employees from historically Black colleges and universities differ from those they use for predominantly White institutions.
October 17th, 2007 at 4:15 am
All you had to do was ask any black person about this - a study was not needed - this has been going on for years –
October 17th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Since the HBCU’s tend to be smaller than “predominantly White institutions,” are primarily located in the South which isn’t close to where most Fortune 400 companies and large government agencies are located, and they aren’t as selective as the top colleges they shouldn’t be surprised that they are not at the top of the list when it comes to recruiting. Look at “predominantly White institutions” in the same geographic areas with similar SAT scores and high school GPAs, curriculums and student body size and you will find that the biggest and best organizations aren’t recruiting there either.
October 17th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Here we go again. This is definitely a case of perception (at least part of it is). What do I mean by this? Job opportunities for graduates of HBCUs are not on par with graduates from majority institutions and we are not surprised by this fact. Yes we must continue to work smarter and harder to prove ourselves (not fair - but that’s the way it is). When provided with the opportunity, we must perform extremely well because if we fail, Companies will use the failure as an excuse for not providing additional opportunities to graduates of HBCUs.
And we should not forget that there are many parts to the complexity of this issue. One of which is, Majority schools are feverishly recruiting our brightest and best students (from a financial point of view, they have more to offer) and therefore we must question the real intent for this recruitment effort. Are they really interested in the educational well-being of the student or, are they intentially making it challenging for the HBCUs to survive? I ask that question to raise our collective consciousness. Let me quickly add that I have the utmost confidence in the abilities of the students who are not highly recruited by the majority institutions. After all, look around, there are numerous leaders in various professional positions who received their undergraduate and graduate level education at a HBCU.
OK, enough for now. I’m interested in reading the opinion of other readers.
Nate