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Facebook states it’s upping its variety video game.
Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg stated Thursday that the business prepares to embrace a varied slate technique to its board of directors, which Facebook specified in 2017 as setting the “expectation that hiring managers will consider candidates from underrepresented backgrounds when interviewing for an open position.” The technique is planned to increase the probability that individuals from varied backgrounds are employed.
Sandberg revealed the effort at a Facebook investor conference
“We wanted to make that commitment publicly,” she stated.
The business has actually increase its variety efforts over the last few years by hiring from more schools and releasing the Facebook University internship program for university student in underrepresented neighborhoods. Facebook, pressed by Sandberg, likewise established a course on handling unconscious predisposition.
