Diversity Candidates: We Have 'Em
College recruiting is often said to be strategic because it generates for organizations their next generation of leaders. But too often we overlook the important benefits that college recruiting has to diversifying the talent pool of those same organizations. The reason? College students as a group are more diverse than the U.S. working population. So by engaging in college recruiting, organizations are also diversifying their workplaces.
We just ran some statistics that prove the point. Our statistics show that more than 46 percent of candidates in our resume bank of five million candidates are members of a minority group and over 52 percent are female. Below are just a few diversity statistical highlights:
Gender
- Female - 52.81%
- Male - 47.19%
Ethnicity
- White (Non-Hispanic Origin) - 53.49%
- African American/Black - 24.92%
- Asian/Pacific Islander - 11.56%
- American Indian/Alaskan Native - 1.07%
- Hispanic - 8.96%
Age
- 18-21 12.85%
- 21-30 55.17%
- 31-40 30.40%
- 61 and over 1.58%
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