Love how the lefties are out try to say this never happens or is illegal.
I used to work in college athletics and was told by a boss that we needed more diversity and by that he meant blacks as we had plenty of female representation despite this being college athletics, which is naturally pretty male dominated field. He preceded to create a new Assistant AD role and interview only black males for it. One of the three was a friend of his he got hired and eventually demoted down to being Assistant AD in name only with no real job responsibilities after a few years.
This was pretty common in the field and there were plenty of times where I would ask about an open job or one of my buddies would and be told they had already determined they would be hiring a female or minority for the role. Now no HR person would ever officially tell you that but the field was so small that you would know the person hiring or someone else that knew them and they would usually tell you not to waste your time.
Love how the lefties are out try to say this never happens or is illegal.
I used to work in college athletics and was told by a boss that we needed more diversity and by that he meant blacks as we had plenty of female representation despite this being college athletics, which is naturally pretty male dominated field. He preceded to create a new Assistant AD role and interview only black males for it. One of the three was a friend of his he got hired and eventually demoted down to being Assistant AD in name only with no real job responsibilities after a few years.
This was pretty common in the field and there were plenty of times where I would ask about an open job or one of my buddies would and be told they had already determined they would be hiring a female or minority for the role. Now no HR person would ever officially tell you that but the field was so small that you would know the person hiring or someone else that knew them and they would usually tell you not to waste your time.