Job fair at SJSU matches black students with Silicon Valley’s tech giants
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/02/22/job-fair-at-sjsu-matches-black-students-with-silicon-valleys-tech-giants/
SAN JOSE — Like a lot of job fairs on college campuses, the event that brought tech-industry recruiters to San Jose State University on Saturday featured plenty of eager students and company-branded swag: Amazon foam footballs, eBay water bottles and Salesforce socks.
But unlike a lot of tech-industry job fairs — and unlike Silicon Valley itself, which has long been criticized for its lack of diversity — most of the prospective employees, and the recruiters from some of the sector’s biggest firms, were black.
Job fair at SJSU matches black students with Silicon Valley’s tech giants
Feb 22, 2020, 11:17pm UTC
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/02/22/job-fair-at-sjsu-matches-black-students-with-silicon-valleys-tech-giants/
> SAN JOSE — Like a lot of job fairs on college campuses, the event that brought tech-industry recruiters to San Jose State University on Saturday featured plenty of eager students and company-branded swag: Amazon foam footballs, eBay water bottles and Salesforce socks.
> But unlike a lot of tech-industry job fairs — and unlike Silicon Valley itself, which has long been criticized for its lack of diversity — most of the prospective employees, and the recruiters from some of the sector’s biggest firms, were black.