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Ruptured pipeline labeled “Candidate Pipeline”. Where the oil is spilling out “Underrepresented Minorities”

Can’t Find Underrepresented Minorities for Tech Jobs?

Suggestions to reframe that always-erroneous statement and steps organizations can take to combat workplace -isms. At the end of September, the CEO of Wells Fargo publicly stated the following: “he unfortunate reality,” he wrote, echoing comments he had made on a video…

Chalkboard steps with the words Never on the lowest step, Maybe on the middle step, and Yes on the highest step.

Convincing People to Be Accessible

I’ve broken the suggestions I am making below many, many times. I’m trying harder not to do that in the future. Product owners and people above them in the executive hierarchy frequently hold the position that current customers and what…

Man sitting in small working space with laptop looking frustrated

All the reasons you might not have gotten that job

Many of which have nothing to do with you. I have spent some time over the last few months mentoring people finding themselves out of work courtesy of COVID. Some of them have applied to jobs at VMware; others are…

Whiteboard that says “To-do list: Pivot!”

Pivoting to fully remote accessibility testing

Five months into the pandemic w/ no finish line in sight, temporary changes must be reassessed and made permanent to improve productivity. We are now five months into the pandemic. That is enough lived experience to have determined that: This…

Four individuals in a warehouse setting wearing brightly colored safety vests, one of them a woman in a wheelchair

Types of discrimination women with disabilities face while looking for work

Women are 20 % more likely to have a disability than men. Workforce discrimination of any form impacts us more. Note: every “bad” HR behavior listed in this article, I have had personally happen to me, or heard about first-hand…

a single red paper airplane in front of a whole ton of white paper airplanes

Are you Disability Compliant? Or Disability Competitive?

There is a world of difference (and a lot of sales) between these two states. Disability Compliant is asking people to identify whether they are disabled on a questionnaire anonymously. Disability Competitive is conducting an annual disability self-identification campaign, training managers on…