DISQUS

Good advice, much appreciated. BTW, i'm mentally kicking myself for spelling your name incorrectly, sorry about that.

Take care,
Andy

Hi, this is sort of off topic for the post so i apologize, I saw Frederic swing by Geeknews today via Mybloglog, i searched back through 2 pages of posts looking for one to strike up a conversation with Frederic but looks like he hasn't posted in a while. I followed his trail back here and became a little intrigued after reading through some of the posts on YBPGuide.

While browsing the site I started thinking about my position at work, as a hiring manager and one of my commitments to our organization is to continue to make my team more diverse which I've been successful at through hiring of women and men of different racial backgrounds. But i've struggled with attracting black engineers (with Computer Science experience).

I found one of your links here to the NSBE and unfortunately it wasn't too helpful to me.

Again, this is so off topic I wouldn't be surprised if you delete the comment :) but it does relate to YBPs; do you have advise for a hiring manager that is specifically targeting diverse candidates in order to find more black software engineers?

BTW, no matter the outcome here, I'll be sending some link love your way from GN this week.

Thank you!
Andy