[wbill]

Mrs. WBill worked for a gov't agency ahile back. One of her people moved on, and they needed to hire a replacement. She was given a stack of resumes and told - TOLD - to give priority to "qualified minority candidates".

Now, how can you tell the color of a person from their resume? I'll omit any racial stereotypical humor.

My wife's brilliant solution to the problem was to keep the resumes that she wanted, and call the rest of the candidates "unqualified". Worked perfectly.

And, curiously enough, the lady she hired...the most qualified person...was African-American. Amazing what people will accomplish when bureaucracy is taken out of the way.

[MrB]

In order to keep from being tripped up by “diversity police”, HR departments should assign a number to the resume, and omit the name.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I hear ya. I think the kid from Tuskeegee’s shortcomings were mostly in the training rather than the aptitude department. If they had hired him in in, say, reliability, he would have quickly learned the job and been a producer and eventually he could widen his horizons.