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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

Even though we were following the typical playbook — posting open positions on job boards that specialize in attracting candidates from underrepresented groups, sponsoring events, giving scholarships, and training our employees on inclusion and hidden bias — we weren’t seeing progress. Native American, 18.1%

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What I Learned from Transforming the U.S. Military’s Approach to Talent

Harvard Business

When Army 2nd Lieutenant Joseph Riley was a senior at the University of Virginia, he ranked 10th out of 5,579 in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) National Order of Merit List. military over the last 250 years can, at times, make recruitment and retention difficult. Today he continues to wear the uniform.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

It suggests that Kalanick initially saw the HR function as a means of recruiting staff to support fast growth. All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development.