BlackCareers.com – What is a “Black Career”??

Racial Equality — October 13, 2011 at 23:28

I recently stumbled on a site called BlackCareers.com, and was completely dumbfounded at the atrocity they had to create such a site. Upon further exploration, I discovered that the site is owned be a very reputable company, CareerBuilder.com

This is completely racist and stereotypical to imply that all “Black” people should use this site, instead of the main site. I went through the site and found that the career/job opportunities are exactly the same as CareerBuilder’s  opportunities. So why the need for a sub-site such as this? Is it simply companies that are forced to oblige by Affirmative Action, and they’re in desperate need of black people?

Why would CareerBuilder.com create such an overtly racist sub company? Well I wrote them, and asked!

Here’s the response I received:

Hello,

Thank you for contacting CareerBuilder.com. My name is Edna, and I appreciate the opportunity to assist you. I sincerely apologize for any confusion or inconvenience that you may have experienced while utilizing the CareerBuilder site. Please allow me to assure you that the Diversity section of our website contains jobs for all cultures and ethnicities.

Due to the nature of our business and the reliance on partnerships, there may be times that the site may have more listings geared towards one group than another, we try to have a well-rounded group and/or selection.

CareerBuilder, as well as our partners and affiliates are equal opportunity websites and corporations and do not promote or tolerate discrimination in any form. Below you will find links to a few of our partners in Diversity.

Univision -http://www.univision.com
Univision is the leading Spanish-language media company in the United States. Their powerhouse portfolio includes Television, Radio, Music and Internet offerings that educate, entertain and inform more Hispanics each day than any other media company in the United States. Univision operations include the Univision Network, TeleFutura Network, Galavisión, Univision Radio, Univision Music Group and Univision Online. CareerBuilder will power a co-branded career site for Univision Online which receives 8 million unique visitors per month. In addition, we will power career sites on their 10 local station websites, which include Chicago, Dallas, Fresno, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Sacramento, San Antonio and San Francisco. Univision will promote their new online career site through extensive television promotional spots on their local stations and national broadcast as well through permanent links and quick search boxes throughout the UOL website.

123india.com -http://www.123india.com/
123india.com is an all-access website to Indian culture, news, and lifestyle. CareerBuilder.com powers their career channel.

AmericanIndianJobs.org -http://www.americanindianjobs.org/
AmericanIndianJobs.com is part of the US Diversity site network. US Diversity is the first service to completely automate the entire process of searching and locating diversity candidates in the United States. CareerBuilder.com powers their career channel.

AsianLife.com -http://www.asianlife.com/main/
The first and largest network of its kind, AsianLife.com is a truly worldwide, Pan-Asian online community with Asian America at its core. At AsianLife.com, Asian professionals can cultivate their careers, connect with people, and be a part of the exploding global Asian community. Free membership includes powerful networking, a global job board, relevant news and information, access to Asian Life Magazine and a calendar of professional conferences and events.

Thank you for choosing CareerBuilder.com!

There you have it! They had the nerve to send me more links to more racist sub-sites. AsianLife.com , AmericanIndianJobs.org, etc..  Wow! What a company. CareerBuilder.com is a mega company with ALOT to lose. Why would they delve into such sensitive waters?

If you want to express your unhappiness with BlackCareers.com you can leave them feed back here.

JA

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