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Re: Faking Ethnicity for Diversity Job Fairs

Post by Renne Walker » Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:37 pm

Out of curiosity, are diversity fairs like SEO? SEO characterizes itself as diversity and you can apply as a whatever but in the end, they mainly recruit AA.

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Re: Faking Ethnicity for Diversity Job Fairs

Post by delusional » Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:40 pm

Anonymous User wrote:This is so unnecessary. Just go to the fair even as a straight white male. I've done it and the interviewer never asked me to my face how I'm diverse.
If the interviewer asks, you just burst into tears and say, I can't believe you would ask that!

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Re: Faking Ethnicity for Diversity Job Fairs

Post by PDaddy » Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:44 pm

OP is a self-centered, self-entitled, arrogant fool.

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Re: Faking Ethnicity for Diversity Job Fairs

Post by Verity » Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:16 pm

PDaddy wrote:OP is a self-centered, self-entitled, arrogant fool.
Lol, some douche calling himself PDaddy calls me a fool.

Seriously, haven't you fucks seen Soul Man? I thought the joke would be obvious. There's like a total of 5 law school movies out there. Go soothe that pain Mr. Sensitive.

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Re: Faking Ethnicity for Diversity Job Fairs

Post by HeavenWood » Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:17 am

Anonymous User wrote:
Lasers wrote:
ilovesf wrote:Some people I know who are white went. They're women and said that's how they were diverse. Still got cbs.
yeah, tons of white girls at diversity fairs.

i didn't see as many white guys, though.
LGBTs. Religious minorities sometimes, too. I know a lot of Jewish guys who went (and interviewing to NY, where being Jewish is not diversity).

Interviewers don't care, though.
Jews are over represented in every US legal market, even the ones with lower Jewish populations in general.

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