Diversity Registry: Look up Employer Diversity Initiatives

Introducing The Diversity Registry

A reference to look up employers' diversity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace, supplier contracting, markets and other areas

Co-presented by DiversityRegistry.com, IMDiversity.com and BlackCollegian.com

THE DIVERSITY REGISTRY is a reference resource where job seekers and others can research and compare information from employers with active diversity programs according to a wide range of indicators -- from diversity recruitment and inclusion programs to supplier diversity and contracting opportunities to minority community involvement and award recognitions, and more.

The Diversity Registry provides quick access to an employer's specific diversity programs information on their website or published/downloadable elsewhere. The Diversity Registry is also where employers can present additional or time-sensitive information about their organizational diversity initiatives, news and announcements.

The complete Diversity Registry may be viewed at DiversityRegistry.com, but also searched from IMDiversity.com/registry and BlackCollegian.com/registry, with additions published in THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine.

View the Diversity Registry Member Pages

Or, View by Diversity Look-up Category

• Diversity & Inclusion - General
• CEO Statement/Quote on Diversity
• Employee Affinity Groups and Diversity Networks
• Supplier Diversity & Contracting Programs
• Diversity Awards and Recognitions
• Entry-Level/College Diversity Initiatives
• Workplace Diversity, Employees and Culture
• Minority Community Involvement and Outreach
• Global Diversity / Multicultural Markets

IMDiversity Featured $100K-Plus Jobs Restored

Following our recent migration to a new jobs database and job tools format at http://jobsearch.imdiversity.com, the editors have begun to restore a number of previously popular jobs quicksearch features including our jobs by location and jobs by occupation quicksearches, and our $100K-Plus Featured Jobs section.

As before, the section spotlights select job opportunities offering salary ranges extending to $100,000 or above. However, one new improvement to the section is the $100K-Plus quicksearch link. With this, jobseekers are not only able to review the currently displayed high-paying featured jobs, but can click through to additional matching results and immediately schedule a Saved Search to send them a job alert email whenever any new feature jobs in a range paying over $100,000 are added to the site.

Although jobseekers can "subscribe" to a Saved Search agent without opening a full job tools account, they will enjoy improved tools for managing multiple alerts and posting employer-searchable resume by creating a quick Job Tools account first.

Important Changes Underway to IMDiversity Job Bank

IMDiversity.com will be moving this month to a new jobs database format with streamlined job search and resume management tools. We invite you to preview the beta model of our new job bank and its extended network of jobs at http://jobsearch.imdiversity.com.

For jobseekers with existing accounts, your account tools, resume, applications history, jobs in-box and search agent will still be accessible on our current system at http://jobs.imdiversity.com until May 31, 2009. If you have any outstanding applications you would like to make to jobs saved in your in-box, we encourage you to do so or to make a copy of the posting before then.

If you have not visited our site recently, we hope you will explore our new job bank, now with simple new methods to search a vastly expanded network of postings, filter relevant jobs and schedule automated searches. Although the new system does not require it to search for and apply to jobs, creating a new account at http://jobsearch.imdiversity.com/jobseeker/ takes only a moment, and lets you also access the new versions of our easy-to-use searchable resume posting and custom job search agent.

More information, see: http://www.imdiversity.com/migration/

Seasonal Special: Entry-Level and Student Job Opportunities

The Editors are pleased to announce their work on our annual just-in-time features for our site visitors who are seeking entry-level or student internship/co-op employment opportunities before graduation.

We've added new readings and current opportunity updates to our Entry-Level/New Graduate and Internship/Co-op quick search channels, including the annual feature analysis, Job Outlook for the Class of 2009, by Dr. Phil Gardner, from our sister publication, THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine.

The 2009 Outlook definitely looks bleak, says the director of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University. But there are some remaining bright spots, as new grads in some majors continue to benefit from large retiree pool.

Nonetheless, it is clear that the class of 2009 faces a much more daunting task entering the entry-level job market than we've seen in many years. From our perspective as a producer of multiple jobs and careers sites, employers across a wide variety of sectors are clearly trending toward modest college hiring activity. Compared to this time last year, fewer new opportunities for new college graduates are being featured on our Entry-Level Channel. Anecdotally, many employers report they completed their planned college hiring activity earlier this season, or have scaled back on campus recruitment events.

But the outlook is not entirely hopeless, as we've discovered in an ongoing informal survey of employers this late winter, and IMDiversity is pleased to be a co-presenter of the 2009 Virtual Diversity Career Fair for recent grads and entry-level candidates being hosted on THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online, and also co-presented this year by our friends at Black College Wire, the news service for Black college students.

Following last year's highly successful Pre-Graduation Virtual Career Fair, this annual online event feature the employers from the Top 100 Employers List, as seen in THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine Second Semester Super Issue, plus other employers from a variety of sectors who confirm they are still seeking diverse entry-level candidates despite the economic downturn and decreased campus recruitment activity. Many are also seeking college students and new graduates for internships and coops.

We will post more about the Fair in the days to come, but in the meantime encourage IMDiversity.com student and entry-level jobseekers of all backgrounds, majors and career interests to visit the Fair, create a quick free THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online Job Tools account using the Fair's quick preregistration form, and subscribe for Fair updates.

IMDiversity's 100K-Plus Jobs Section Back Online

After a hiatus, IMDiversity has restored our feature, $100K-Plus Jobs, our section of high-paying featured job opportunities offering salary ranges extending to $100,000 or above. Visitors may notice that in some cases, positions that are not regular full-time salary jobs may offer equivalent hourly rates instead.

We had to take this highly trafficked section offline for a period during the fall in order to work on new programming and placement for it. users are welcomed to visit and bookmark the section once again, as well as to create save the $100K-Jobs search results as a personal auto-alert agent by creating a free custom My Job Tools Account at IMDiversity.

Special: Jobs in Digital Media and Arts - Through Nov. 15

IMDiversity is pleased to announce to its visitors our Special Digital Media and Arts Virtual Job Fair, this week only. The section features time-sensitive opportunities related to digital/multmedia, graphic design, animation and Web content, working with employers in both industry and academia.

Positions seek candidates with experience in areas ranging from television direction to graphic design, interactive communications to gaming artists, photography to audio production.

Because of the time-sensitive nature of the postings, artists and media producers should immediately create a free My Job Tools Account at IMDiversity upon identifying a position of interest so that they can save a personal copy of the posting. Applicants should also take care to note the exact application steps in the in the posting, as a number of them require submission of supplemental materials and portfolio samples (some by snail mail), in addition to the usual resume/CV and cover letters.

• Visit the job fair page at IMDiversity

New Feature: The Job Hunters Chronicles

New on the IMDiversity Career Center, we're pleased to kick off our new feature, The Job Hunters Chronicles, with three submissions.

Although the software engineer, a dot-com executive, and a journalist who works as a government liason for a non-profit service agency are all in very different occupations, they share a common theme in their job hunting stories.

K.D., a software engineer who wanted to relocate from San Francisco to Chicago, took a fairly traditional approach to posting his resume on an online job board, and was lucky to be contacted by a desirable employer. However, he recalls that that first contact was just a foot in the door. He had not anticipated the highly time-consuming electronic back-and-forth that ensued, including multiple interviews and a sample of original code programming solving a problem the company sent him.

David Fox, a dot-com executive, focuses on the importance of using online tools to thoroughly research a prospective employer. In his case, the time spent researching the products and even the flaws of his current employer's websites -- and then corresponding with a hiring manager about them at length and in detail -- paid off.

Shawn Chollete, who had worked as a journalist, similarly landed a good job at a NPO through a seemingly round-about fashion: through networking on sites like Facebook and MySpace, and ultimately cross-referencing these social resources with contacts in job postings he wanted to apply to.

If there's one common thread among our inaugural user contributors to The Job Hunters Chronicles, it seems to be that simply posting to job boards and applying to jobs is only the first step in a job search process. Following up by using the widest range of online tools to research, communicate with, and present themselves to their prospective employers is key to successfully concluding a job hunt online.

Amen.

Do you have a story to share with other jobseekers abot what worked or didn't work for you in online job searching? Please submit it to The Job Hunters Chronicles, or feel free to leave a coment posted here on this thread.

General What's New Postings Moving to New Address

After taking some time off to reconfigure our postings, IMDiversity's editors and contributors/bloggers have determined to separate the general "What's New" postings that we had been posting in this space for posting on a stand-alone but related address:

http://imdiversity.blogspot.com

This current blog, http://diversitycareers.blogspot.com/, will continue to be updated with appropriate content related to career development, workplace issues, diversity- and employment-related topics, and announcements of opportunities and events of interest to a wide range of visitors coming from the Career Center channel of our main site IMDiversity.com, and from elsewhere.

However, those announcements that are primarily related to internal news and announcements of goings-on with the IMDiversity.com and THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online network, as well as THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine, will be posted on http://imdiversity.blogspot.com. These items will be primarily of interest to regular active-job-seeker visitors and clients of our organization, those making use of our jobs and resume tools, etc. on our main site, as well as those interested in corporate news and information about IMDiversity, Inc.

In fact, this is how we had planned to approach the integration of the blogs into our site activities from the beginning, believing that it was in the interests of our readers who were seeing different kinds of content. However, it took us a little while to (re)secure and configure the http://imdiversity.blogspot.com address.

We hope this change will be beneficial to our readers and site visitors moving forward.

-- The editors

Employer Tools Update: More Application Methods

Tip to employers posting open positions on IMDiversity's Job Bank and THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online's Job Bank:

At the request of our clients, we have again expanded the options and tools for specifiying different preferred formats and communications methods for receiving applications from our jobseekers.

New tools bundled with the basic and advanced Job Post Form in your Employer Tools account not only allow you to specify a wider range of position-specific application requirements. They also provide expanded options for receiving applications (whether via email, Inbox files, redirects, or other methods), and new tools for previewing and testing application redirects and email contacts.

Additional upgrades are planned to this section in September, so stay tuned.

IMDiversity Joins Call for A Day of Presence for the Gulf Coast

The staff of IMDiversity, Inc. wishes to call our visitors' attention to an important series of events here in our hometown -- from August 27-September 1 -- commemorating the anniversaries of the hurricanes that struck our region two years ago. A variety of events -- from large gatherings and vigils to scholarly panel discussions to policy roundtables to volunteer drives -- will be held in our city surrounding the anniversary.

We join our neighbors, and business and media colleagues in inviting concerned citizens to consider visiting us, whether in person or virtually, to participate in the August 29th DAY OF PRESENCE and other events throughout the week, and consider volunteering in some way to help in the ongoing and needed restoration of our city and region.

We will be posting additional information about events and actions on our sites, as well as on our network of blogs, with the most current information that comes our way being posted on an ongoing basis at our BLACK COLLEGIAN @ Blogspot blog.

Meanwhile, we encourage interested readers to view this release by Susan L. Taylor, ESSENCE Editorial Director, discussing the planning for one New Orleans gathering, as well as Vincent Sylvain's African-American Leadership Project (AALP) Announces Schedule of Activities to Commemorate Hurricane Katrina, listing details of additional events.

New Column on Transitioning from College to the "Real World"

THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online is pleased to introduce a new column, "Now What?" by special columnist Chaz Kyser, of special interest this time of year for all those newly minted college grads who are experiencing "culture shock".

Geared to helping recent graduates making the transition from school to the world of work, the column is dedicated to the idea that "the real world—the working world—is not to be feared, put off or ignored; it should be embraced."

By the author of the book, Embracing the Real World: The Black Woman’s Guide to Life After College, the column has origins in Kyser's determination to share practical guidance especially -- but not exclusively -- to young African-American women. However, the expanded online column contains valuable tips and reminders for those of all ages, genders and backgrounds who are already working, and are concerned with such nuts-and-bolts topics such as the pros and cons of a second job, meeting and exceeding a new employer’s expectations, fitting in at a new workplace, and evaluating whether or not to go back to school.

Resume FlashPost Undergoing Maintenance

Starting today, our Resume FlashPost has been temporarily disabled. This tools section has been closed temporarily while our server is undergoing maintenance changes. We expect to reopen the section shortly, and apologize for any inconvenience this outage may have caused to any of our users.

QuickSearch Added: $100K+ Jobs

The staff of IMDiversity.com has continued the season's updating on the Career Center section of our site, adding this week a number of new location quicksearch sections, as well as a new QuickSearch of jobs offering salaries in the six figures, or hourly equivalents.

IMDiversity's QuickSearches provide pre-programmed searches of opportunities contained in our jobs database, making with the goal of providing convenient, one-click access to job search results without having to manually input multiple search criteria on each visit. QuickSearch results also allow visitors who open a free MY JOB TOOLS Account to save and customize one-click job searches and schedule automated job agents that will automatically send personalized email job alerts when new opportunities fitting the search criteria are posted.

Feb. Top 100 Employers/African American History Edition of THE BLACK COLLEGIAN

IMDiversity, Inc. is pleased to announce the publication of a special, extra graduation edition of THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine . Available on college campuses nationwide, primarily through career services offices, as well as through direct personal subscriptions, the issue contains a special readings section focused on the transition from campus life to the working world, a section on Careers in Media & Mass Communications that is extended on THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online, a Q&A with Roderick West, President n& CEO of Entergy New Orleans, and a contribution by The Apprentice winner Randall Pinkett, discussing "secrets to becoming a successful campus CEO".
The staff will begin to upload the edition, including a number of special extended versions of articles, to http://www.black-collegian.com.

Staff Message of Support to the Families and Friends of Virginia Tech Victims

The staff of IMDiversity, Inc. and the editors of IMDiversity.com and THE BLACK COLLEGIAN wish to extend our deepest heartfelt sympathies to those whose loved ones' lives were lost and upended by the tragic shootings on the campus of Virginia Tech. Such a ghastly, inexplicable tragedy can threaten to overwhelm a community, and we hope the people of Blacksburg will find strength in knowing that the prayers and thoughts of the nation are with them.

-- The Staff of IMDiversity

Kim R. Wells, Howard University Career Center director, joins THE BLACK COLLEGIAN blog team

THE BLACK COLLEGIAN staff has been working to expand its blogs section this season, and is pleased to welcome our new featured columnist and blog team member Kim R. Wells, Director, Howard University Career Services. Mr. Wells, a long-time contributor to THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine, has over 17 years of experience leading career management, organizational development, and strategic human capital initiatives in both corporate and higher education environments. In addition to his columns, Mr. Wells will be posting to our THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online's blog especially, but not exclusively, addressing career issues, tips and straight-talk from an insider’s view, and for the benefit of African American college students, recent graduates, and other diverse jobseekers.

Misc. Notices Maintenance, Jobs

Notice of Site Maintenance
Our site servers will be undergoing routine maintenance this weekend. Beginning on the night of Friday March 30, visitors may experience brief periods in which they find this site temporarily inaccessible. The maintenance will be conducted on portions of the IMDiversity.com and the Job Bank at THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online. We will work to complete the maintenance with minimal disruption to our users, and thank you for your patience.

Added: Featured Jobs @ IMDiversity
IMDiversity has added a new Featured Jobs page on our main website to call attention to open positions of interest in a variety of fields and at various levels. At this time, there's no single criterion for a job's inclusion on the list at this time; some positions are editors' choice; others are interesting positions whose posting is about to expire; others have been flagged as good jobs where the employer is especially actively interested in filling; still others are positions worthy of a shout because they are high-level, or are geared to providing a service for the particular good our multicultural communities. We encourage you to visit Featured Jobs whenever you stop by the site to see what's new.

Annual Summer Gigs Feature
IMDiversity has updated its special seasonal section dedicated to providing job outlook information and featured opportunities for recent graduates and other entry-level jobseekers, as well as internships and other summer opportunities. The one-month feature is the perfect thing for student procrastinators who have not yet nailed down an internship or for those about to graduate still looking for their first job. Visit the Summer Gigs 2007 section now.

Al "The Inspiration" Duncan joins THE BLACK COLLEGIAN blog team

THE BLACK COLLEGIAN staff has been working to expand its blogs section this winter, and is pleased to welcome our new new columnist and blog team member Al "The Inspiration" Duncan. Mr. Duncan is a widely traveled public speaker, TV personality, workshop leader, and author of numerous motivational publications. His State of Mind multimedia program, described at www.alduncan.net, incorporates E-Books, E-Zines, and audio content to provide motivational and self-empowerment aid to diverse audiences everywhere.

Working with TBC's blog team, Duncan will blog to Elevate U, with a focus on providing information and engaging in discussions helpful to college students and recent grads pursuing their self-development and career-development goals. We are pleased to welcome him, and invite you to also see his recent feature, Six Ways to Turn Setbacks into Comebacks, from last fall's edition of THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine.

Feb. Top 100 Employers/African American History Edition of THE BLACK COLLEGIAN

IMDiversity, Inc. is pleased to announce the publication of the Second Semester 2007 Super Issue of THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine.

The February Top 100 Employers/African-American History edition features our annual listing of the top 100 employers for the class of 2007, as well as a feature interview with actor Will Smith; Charlayne Hunter-Gault's tribute to the late Ed Bradley; and much more.

Additional career-focused features include a series of practical advice articles for students and recent graduates on successfully navigating the various stages of the job interviewing process, from interviewing at on-campus career fairs to presenting yourself well at on-site interviews.

In a related feature, "How to Make the Most of Your Campus Career Center," we surveyed directors from career offices at universities nationwide to get their tips for how to maximize these often-utilized resources.

The staff will begin to upload the edition, including a number of special extended article expanded from the magazine versions, to http://www.black-collegian.com. The magazine is distributed free on several hundred college campuses in the U.S., primarily through career services offices, and is also available through direct personal subscriptions.

IMDiversity Healthcare Channel updates underway

The editors of the IMDiversity.com network have begun work on updating and expanding the http://www.imdiversity.com/Villages/Channels/healthcare/default.asp.

Initially launched as a time-limited feature -- a blend of an online virtual career fair with detailed background articles presenting information about diversity and the employment outlook in this booming field, the Healthcare Channel has proved a consistently popular destination with our readers. Many readers, in fact, have written to request additional features focused on finding and preparing for opportunities in healthcare-related fields.

As a result, we have published a number of new articles , as well as updated and expanded upon the statistical information, resource listings, salary information, and employment outlook projections for the field. We will continue to update the channel throughout the season, and incorporate new readings series focused on both opportunities and disparities in healthcare for our diverse communities.

The Healthcare Channel, along with the IMDiversity Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Channel, offer not only articles about the industries, but also a number of job quicksearch tools and employer profiles to allow faster, more relevant searching of targeted opportunities in this very broad employment category. QuickSearch tools in both channels also allow users who hold a free MY JOB TOOLS Account with IMDiversity to customize, refine and save healthcare-related job searches in our database so they can automatically receive email notices of new postings in the future.