| > Isn't culture fit just another word for "people like me"? My ex came to me in a rage the other day because the large bank she works for had produced a promotional video for HR purposes talking about success that was presented before a presentation on diversity, and where every single person interviewed from the bank was a white, blond male, while black people were only presented when cutting to news footage (e.g. of Obama etc.) - they apparently couldn't, or didn't want to, find a single black person or asian person in a workforce of tens of thousands that they could use... The same bank created a promotional ad to hire more women in an Asian country last year where of 10 women, 9 were white blondes and only one was actually Asian. And then they wonder why they don't get more black or asian people applying for jobs. To top it up, they strongly prefer people from a small pool of schools that are expensive and strongly favor children of alumni to the extent that their preferred hiring pool already is very heavily skewed towards white upper class men. Their "diversity team" works within that constraint: To have to try to capture the very small black and asian contingent that fits hiring criteria and a culture that is so strongly predisposed to them that even if they hired everyone that met the criteria and were willing, they'd not get close to achieving diversity in any meaningful sense. It's a real problem that many places want things like "culture fit" without actually thinking about how they actually ue that. Often even while putting together committees to try to solve specific hiring problems that can't do their job because the "culture" is holy and questioning whether or not it is being so narrowly construed that it causes extreme monoculture is often not acceptable... (to be clear I'm not suggesting the person you replied to or others here are doing what the bank in question is doing - I just wanted to give an extreme example of what "culture fit" can lead to, even without it necessarily being the intent) |