How to hire people of color

It's Black History Month and today we're going to focus on what
companies need to do to improve their ability to hire people of
color, and then retain them.


Like so many things, good diversity practices are driven from the
top of the organization. You need executives to be open to doing
things differently, to working with different types of people.
Unfortunately the view of many leaders doesn't match the reality
of the situation. The tech sector severely lacks a diverse
workforce. Yet 68% of leaders feel like they are already creating
inclusive environments where employees can be themselves and
raise concerns and innovate without fear of failure. However if
you ask their employees if they agree, well only 36% of them do.


Allison Straker is a research director and Ugbad Farah is a
senior research analyst, both with Info-Tech Research Group. They
walk us through their research.