Posted on 05/07/2011 7:40:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As graduation season rapidly approaches, black college graduates may face a greater burden in the job market than their white counterparts. Black college graduates are twice as likely to be unemployed as white college graduates.
The recession has only worsened this problem. Unemployment among blacks is disproportionately higher than the rest of the population.
Reasons for this trend include black students are not adequately prepared for the job market. They may have the degrees, but they lack the connections or professional skills to be successful in the workplace.
Students may have the knowledge, but not the resume; or the resume, but not the knowledge. Also, since many current black college graduates are first-generation college students, they may not have the same professional networks within their families that white college graduates may have.
Even when black people have significant professional and networking opportunities, race can still play a role in their employability. The New York Times cited a study that said Caucasian, Asian and Latino managers hired a greater number of white job applicants and fewer black job applicants than black managers did.
Other concerns and signs of more covert, and possibly even unconscious, racism included the tendency to hire candidates with less "ethnic-sounding" names or candidates to whom they felt they were a better fit for the "cultural environment" of the workplace.
The presidency of Barack Obama was also cited as a possible challenge to the employment of black college graduates. Since many people feel that President Obama's election demonstrated the limitless possibilities for black people, black job applicants are more likely to be seen as playing the victim if they express their feelings about racism or cultural bias in the job application process.
In some ways, Obama's election also diminished the severity of the need for programs and opportunities targeted toward cultural diversity in the workplace. Therefore, attempts to level the playing field of opportunity have decreased, leaving many black college graduates to continue to combat discrimination with, what is often viewed as, an old argument and with less ammunition.
Regardless of the reasons for the disparity in employment rates, black college graduates must navigate the job market the way it is now. Lack of opportunity can only be countered by continuing to be proactive.
Pro-activity does not just mean training harder or longer to improve or increase skills and marketability or working consistently to build connections.
If there are no opportunities available, black college graduates must create their own because entrepreneurship is the only definitive solution to the problem of employability. The difficulties associated with working for others decrease if we take steps to work for ourselves.
Less govt jobs.
Segregationist!
I lived in segregated communities. Blacks couldn't shop here and there so guess what? They had businesses, schools, professionals, families, . . . . the works. It was not perfect obviously but it was better than many conditions that exist today.
These liberals say that black entrepreneurship is a solution but do they really mean entrepreneurship? or are they feeeeeeeeeeling that some government program is needed to fake success?
Another indicator of their BS is why do they (and they will) reject Mr. Cain, et al and denounce them as traitors to their race?
Half the blacks who "graduate" from college can't read at a sixth-grade level. The only reason they do "graduate" is because of the soft racism of lowered expectations.
How valuable is any employee who can only read at a sixth-grade level?
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.
The uproar from various special interest groups will be far more noticeable after the bond collapse and interest rate hikes in our near future. That’s when employees will fall like rain from government, then service jobs.
Enjoy the slide.
Also throw out graduates of "traditional black colleges" and I'll further wager that black graduates of mainstream colleges with the degrees you mention have probably even higher employment rates than the norm. A big chunk of corporate America is quite concerned with being "diverse," and therefore are willing to go after qualified mainstream black graduates with a vengeance.
I have 136 students in my engineering course this semester. I have 1 black student - the first one I’ve had in 4 years.
Wouldn’t there need to be an equal amount of black an white graduates before such an assumption could be made ?
I took my 8th grade science class in summer school. The class was
all white except for one black male. He didn’t try very hard. When his
test scores were returned with 60% or less points earned, he started
yammering about “racial prejudice”. I saw a replay some years later
as a Kenyan student in my UCSD chemistry lab changed an
answer on a graded test and tried to get more points out of the lab
TA. Cheating. He was expelled. A WTF moment.
“...black job applicants are more likely to be seen as playing the victim if they express their feelings about racism or cultural bias in the job application process.”
Regardless of President Obama, complaining about racisim during the job application process is a BAD IDEA if you are trying to GET A JOB.
Take it from me. I’ve made that mistake, not complaining about racism, but complaining. I’m a pretty good job getter, but I sure as heck didn’t get that one.
Here is my advice for college grads, black and otherwise, and to all who are looking for a job: pound the pavement, go door to door, and yes, make looking for a job your job. Pray to St. Joseph, patron of workers. Don’t give up! Vote the straight republican line every time.
Good luck to all job seekers!
Wow, that was a really depressing article.
I will say that I have always found those college office workers to be rude and unhelpful, they are the worst. I don’t know why but they are.
As for the fire-starting, what a disgrace. Those students should be forced to read about the devastating dorm fire that took place at Seaton Hall in New Jersey.
Thank you for that link!
well, the mother is stupid... doesn't she know it should be spelled, "La-a!" no need for a double "sh."
Yes, I recall Ken Hamblin saying that black college grads went on fewer interviews and received more offers than white ones.
My first guess is that they don’t keep that first real job though.
ML/NJ
Someone I know gave a young black man speical race preference for a job that involved technical training so he could move up in the organization and succeed. These training program slots were few and far between and highly competitive. One of young man’s major problems was ebonics in speech and in writing. People could not understand him and it turned out he had a huge chip on his sholder about it.
So his supervisor sent him to an English class at a big University that was designed for the ebonics crowd in business. That little race baiter then thanked his mentor by suing him for being a racis.
That was the end of that program. They rediscovered the glory of merit. People who do not earn what they gain through merit, but rather the importance and beauty of the hides, often think they have everything coming to them and do not struggle to acheive in a real sense. Rather, they set their struggle on racial dominance - acheiving more racial special treatment. They get racepimpitis.
There are plenty of those black granduates who are able to compete in a merit system and they will most likely do well in their careers. But as a group quota, you won’t see that success.
Their own quoted statistics show that black managers preferentially hire other blacks, which is explictly racist.
Times are tough all over, thanks to the nation's first affirmative action Marxist mole Muslim sympathizer community organizer in chief.
And demographic trends (illegal immigration, anchor babies) coupled with the work ethic of a hungrier demographic (illegals are too busy working, to stay out of Mexico, to rely on make-work guaranteed-hire programs driven by fear of lawsuits. So employers, given the choice of two "diversity" candidates, one of whom works hard, the other of whom has a chip on the shoulder, will *jump* at the hard worker. Duh.)
Cheers!
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