When you're 75 percent of the recruitment pool and you lose or gain 5 percent as the hiring process progresses, it may not have much of an impact. Sears rebuffed a lawsuit by women alleging gender discrimination by using statistics to show that women weren't hired or promoted because they weren't interested in the higher-paying jobs. The suit produced 5,275 pages of trial testimony from statisticians. And be ready for this argument. Watch for employee dumping.
Unconnected workers can get lousy hours, lousy assignments and lousy recommendations.
Once on board, they may never advance or advance slowly, while some manager's kid climbs like a rocket. Beware claims that other jobs exist specifically targeted to minorities and women. As we found, and as Lem Lloyd found in Chester County, PA, the federal jobs pay considerably less and are for shorter durations. After our story on nepotism in summer jobs, St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman signed an executive order barring relatives from hiring or supervising their kin and this year he launched a special recruitment drive to entice minorities and women to apply for jobs. The Star-Ledger's stories generated more than 300 letters and phone calls and led to the introduction of a bill that would ban hiring or contracting of relatives in New Jersey.