Stepping Out of the Box

I work with a guy who seems to keep hiring different variations of his daughter for one particular position. Surrogate Daughter (SD) #4 was just hired recently and I had to laugh. Since about 2009 or 2010, this position has been filled by similar young white women, none of whom have stayed in the job for very long. Yet, when the job is posted, the hiring manager can't seem to think outside of the box and hire someone who isn't a young white woman. I'm not saying these women who were hired weren't qualified for the job, but I keep getting the feeling the manager just prefers someone who fits a certain mold (i.e. a young white woman like his daughter). Every time an SD is hired, she leaves within a few years. The last SD didn't even make it through one year. There are various reasons why each SD leaves, but they all do. Maybe if the manager considered someone for the job who is over the age of 30 or someone of a different ethnicity, he'd have more success in finding a worker who would actually remain in the position for more than a couple of years. But, he keeps hiring one SD after another. It's this kind of narrow mind set that really holds people back from getting jobs. Too many hiring managers disregard candidates because they're different from themselves. Bros often want other bros working with them because they figure they'll fit in better. People who aren't SDs or bros often don't have a fighting chance to penetrate the wall of sameness they come up against.