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Black Tech Talent works to bring equality to the tech sector
This Minneapolis-based business is creating a pipeline to diversifying the field, on this week s Communities that KARE.
Credit: Black Tech Talent Author: Shelley Stridsberg Updated: 3:30 AM CDT April 19, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota Communities that KARE highlights local people and businesses striving to make a difference.
Our focus is now on Black Tech Talent, a Minneapolis-based company at the forefront of the inclusion evolution. The world is diverse; our thoughts are diverse, our moods are diverse, everything about our being is diverse, explained Mike Jackson, founder and CEO of Black Tech Talent.
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American companies are once again promising to increase minority hiring and retention in the aftermath of the 2020 police killings of George Floyd and other Black people and subsequent Black Lives Matter demonstrations. But Black people have heard this promise before for decades, in fact with little tangible change in the low employment numbers of Black engineers, developers, and IT pros.
For companies that really do want to change their staffs to better reflect diversity in the US, it’s time to go beyond words and take action. To help you do that,
Computerworld talked to several people in the frontlines of promoting the hiring of Black people for tech jobs. Their advice was strong and unambiguous: Define the business case for diversity, then follow up with a determined action plan and establish the metrics to monitor the results and adjust course as needed. And perhaps even harder, learn to truly connect with the Black community to establish the relationships that lead
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The shock of the killing of George Floyd and other Black people in 2020 got Americans talking again about racial disparities and companies talking again about improving diversity and inclusion. With Black History Month now winding down, there’s even more talk.
But there’s been talk off and on for decades, with little result.
By some measures, the proportion of Black people in engineering professions has actually dropped since the 1980s, despite all the awareness. More recently, while there have been improvements in Black representation in IT positions across industries, Black representation in the US tech sector as a whole is still just half of what the Black population overall is. Black representation remains even lower in the tech vendor community.