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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not racist to acknowledge that the government has hiring preferences for minorities. My husband, who has been a senior government employee, has been told multiple times that positions are reserved for women and minorities. Luckily, he is in the private sector and thriving well. When the government people contact him asking for suggestions for possible appointees, though, they now almost always specify they are seeking women and minorities. I am all for diversity, but this has really gone too far.[/quote]

And you and the OP KNOW that this is why the OP had not been hired?  Do you or the OP know that a minority ultimately got the job that she sought?  See...I have learned in my career that many people just do not want to accept the fact that they are not qualified or that they interviewed poorly.  So they speculate and come up with external factors as to why they did not get the job.  Believe it or not, the government job market is VERY competitive for positions that require a college degree. For all we know, OP applied for a position with 1000 applicants. [/quote]

I am the poster you are quoting. No, I do not know her, nor do I know why she has not been hired. As a more general matter, though, there is, at least at the higher levels, a clear preference to hire people who are either minorities or women. In some areas the priority is to hire women, in some areas to hire certain categories of minorities, and in some areas simply not to hire additional Caucasian men. I am quite familiar with senior personnel in several agencies who are regularly asked for potential candidates for appointment. It is not a state secret that what this administration is seeking is a group of minorities and women. In my view, that has both positive and negative policy and practical consequences, but overall I think it has gone too far.  To deny that this preferential treatment of women and minorities exists, though, would be wholly disingenuous.[/quote]

I've been mentoring a white male ex-colleague in his late 50s trying to get a Fed attorney job.  He's brilliant and 10X smarter than most of the Fed attorneys, but he's coming up empty-handed.  To suggest there isn't both age and gender discrimination where white applicants are concerned is crazy.  During the same period I've watched numerous younger minority candidates with far less smarts land positions.  I don't know what they bring to the table that my former colleague doesn't, other than age, race, gender and, perhaps, assumed pliability.  I'm sure there is almost visceral assumption that, because this guy is older, he is set in his ways and won't take direction from them.

It makes me very glad that I'm not in his position and will be able to retire whenever I want based on my private-sector earnings and personal investments.  I'm sure it's every bit as big a blow to his ego as being denied opportunities was to minority candidates in the past, if not greater.  We seem to have swung from one end of the pendulum to the other. [/quote]

Or maybe he's not as smart as you think or maybe those individuals had something on their resume your friend didn't. [b] Whites hold most of the management positions [/b]yet several government agencies consistently get low marks for management.  Trust white incompetence is everywhere.  [/quote]

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