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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by Consultant32452 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:57PM (#15545204)
The thing I'm questioning is how you could describe being proportionate to the candidate pool as "a large problem."

Lack of diversity in STEM is a large problem, but your payroll matching the market doesn't seem like a large problem.

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by QAkICoU7IDNkpFu on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @04:58AM (#15548516)
>Lack of diversity in STEM is a large problem

Diversity of what? And why is it a problem?

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by s73ver_ on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @06:15PM (#15545689)
For one, the candidate pool is artificially limited. And, like I said, 3 schools does not the market make.
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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by Consultant32452 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @09:14PM (#15546580)
>For one, the candidate pool is artificially limited.

The candidate pool has an artificially inflated number of women due to the success of nearly universal outreach among STEM programs towards women. I'm not suggesting that's a bad thing, but let's not throw shade at universities where it's undeserved.

>And, like I said, 3 schools does not the market make.

If the 3 schools OP was recruiting from have gender bias against women then let's call them out.

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