why are so many HR people of color?
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Anonymous
Your observation was completely fine. The problem here in DC is that some folks filter everything through the lens of racism this racism that, must be a sad existence |
Anonymous
Same at mine. |
Anonymous
If you are in the DC Metro area, your observation is based on geography. When I was in San Diego, HR was primarily white women and men, with a minority of Asain women. |
Anonymous
Asian. |
Anonymous
| What about govt jobs like the US postal service in this area. Mostly AA. My observation only. |
Anonymous
Wow. |
Anonymous
White yuppies are not looking to work for USPS or DC Metro or UPS or in HR, you can't afford to live in NW DC or any "acceptable" neighborhood with those jobs. |
Anonymous
And, of course, there's only two categories of folks living in DC: AA and white yuppies. Latinos, Asians, and poor whites don't exist. Wow, sometimes DC provincials are truly scary. |
Anonymous
I agree its interesting and I don't think the question is racist at all. I would also point out that I've always been interested why so many dry cleaners are run by Korean Americans and why so many taxi cab drivers are Ethiopian American and why so many Indian restaurants are actually run by Bangladeshi Americans. I don't think it's racist to be interested in these patterns... Now some of the explanations offered in this thread do strike me as racist. To attribute inferior characteristics to a group because of the historical pattern is racism, because it's suggesting something is intrinsic about a group of people, not that history/circumstance/power structures created a certain context of opportunity and training. |
Anonymous
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Nursing and teaching are THE pink collar jobs. Like, that is where the concept precisely comes from. Not florist.
In any event, my guess to the OP's question is that HR takes zero skill set. And I also want to preface this by saying that I think this field is primarily women - not just AA women. These days you would generally need a college degree -- but AA degree probably suffices, and there are lots of folks in their 40s who are promotes from a time when you didn't need the degree at all to sneak into HR. The only other big corporate/government job category that's zero skill like HR is marketing/PR/public affairs. Not everyone is necessarily good at these jobs, but you can show up without an identifiable skill set and nonetheless have a good career. Thing about all the other admin jobs in a big office setting - accounting (requires technical skills), IT (requires technical skills), even office services require heavy lifting skills. I think women in generally are less inclined as 18 year old first-year college students to want to "commit" to a technical skill set. And if they do, they want it to be a "soft" skill. That's just anecdotal. But think about how most women choose general arts programs in college, marketing, business, etc. And very few women, relatively speaking, choose at age 18 to go into engineering, science, IT, or even the majors in the business school that are harder sciences. And if AA women make up a sizeable percentage of HR people in DC, I'm guessing it's because there is a fairly big AA middle class here - in the sense of people who may have a community college degree. And HR is the kind of field that you can sneak into with a community college degree. And most community college students are minorities. It just seems like a good step up kind of job for people who may not have access to a high level college, as it's a big step up from being a secretary. |
Anonymous
Well there are Latinos at the USPS, I've never seen an Asian bus driver, I doubt that's even acceptable to do as a job. There are no poor whites in DC in any zip. There are some in MD/VA. Try again. |
Anonymous
No Asian bus drivers because metro is very racist. Didn't you see the article today? Hispanics are shut out too. |
Anonymous
Wrong. I know plenty of mid-20s recent college grad whites making $12-20k and living in group homes all over DC. |
Anonymous
Agreed. Signed, Hispanic who objected to OP saying "people of color" when she only meant "black." Hello, Asians and Hispanics are here too. Do you see us? |
Anonymous
There are poor people in every city in America and you know that. Stop acting dumb. |