Corporate Recruiting In the 21st Century
Minority-serving institutions have long been recognized as great sources of talent in the search for diverse and qualified candidates.
By Ronald Roach
Recruiting for diverse talent is a major priority in corporate America. At a time when employee recruiting is being transformed by the Internet and other technologies, corporate recruiters and campus career services professionals share the belief that college and university campuses represent the most important source for diverse talent. Within the literature on diversity recruiting, as well as what conventional wisdom prescribes, colleges and universities are touted for their diverse populations.
“The very nature of universities is that they are a diverse pool of people. Universities are the best source for diverse candidates,” says Bill Craib, a senior director at the Human Capital Institute, an educational and consulting organization that provides advice to companies and their recruiting professionals on attracting and managing talent.
Those in the corporate recruiting community say minority-serving institutions, such as historically Black colleges and universities and Hispanic-Serving Institutions, are highly valued because they are perceived as quality sources of minority talent. Those urban public universities with significant minority numbers, whether Asian American, Black or Hispanic, also rank high with recruiters.
