The top of our leadership came to me today looking to better understand demographic analytics that I recently produced. It captures a view of our clients and our staff and contrasts them against one another. It is interactive and one can view a client demographics versus their associated care team, the team versus their supervisors, and those versus their management, etcetera, all the way up the food chain.
In the course of our conversation, she expressed a desire to hire a more diverse group of people that better matched population. She was concerned about the accuracy of the data, and how it displayed that our clients seemed to be comprised of a lot of white males. She could see the diversity in the care teams, but as it reached into administration there seemed an overabundance of white people in the organization. She really wants to change that and impress it upon her leadership team that we should try to avoid simply hiring "white guys" if there is a more ethnically diverse individual that can be hired.
Later that same day, our leader in charge of that realm stopped to talk about the topic as well. She said that person had tried continually to get her to change her mind about this topic, but she had steadfastly refused, telling her that she would continue to only hire the most qualified.
What is happening here?
Is this legal?
This really seems a bit discriminatory.
What if the shoe were on the other foot?
And then they posted the role of Director of Information Technology, to which I applied. I interviewed on 11/8 and then again on 11/19. I have not heard anything. The hiring manager said that I answered every question perfectly and am definitely qualified. I feel as though they seem to want someone else for the role, regardless of how qualified I am. Indeed, just last week, on December 13, they reposted the position on LinkedIn yet again. I am feeling as though people of my sort are no longer welcome here.
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