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...traveling from place to place, ordinarily starting a day of work or--extraordinarily--coming to help and rescue others. Freedom? That real enough for you? Everything we cling to in our free and sauntering country was imperiled by the terrorists. Destruction was real; no hedging about that. Hans Christian Andersen wrote that famous fairy tale about The Most Incredible Thing, a beautiful, intricate clock that was smashed to bits by an ax, which act was then judged to be the most incredible thing. No fairy tales required this week. Where the Twin Towers were, there is now only empty...
...number of immigrants coming from other Central and South American countries grows each year. Increasingly, they are spreading into states, such as Iowa, that never had sizable Hispanic populations. This has made diversity a growing challenge to corporate America. But companies such as Allstate, Wal-Mart and Andersen have made huge gains in the past five years with diversity programs that are notable for their depth and scale--and bottom-line results...
Hiring Hispanics for retail stores that serve other Hispanics is easy enough, but what about the esoteric world of consulting and accounting services? Arthur Andersen consultants used to be called Androids because of their white-bread interchangeability. No more, says Sandra Paiz Garcia, Experienced Manager in Andersen's Denver office who came to the company directly from university. Garcia reports that a growing number of prospective clients are demanding diverse professional teams. Recently, her office closed a deal with an organization that would hire only a culturally diverse consulting team...
...Andersen's recruiting programs are recognized as among the best by the Hispanic community. Working with Inroads, a national organization that places talented minority youths in businesses, Andersen recruits in high schools, offering qualifying graduates summer internships for up to four years after graduation. The company says close to 95% of the interns accept full-time positions at the company...
...Andersen's chief of recruiting, Dana Ellis, finds that "the challenge is to identify students really early. We are doing everything under the sun to reach them." Sandra Garcia's own summer internship gave her needed confidence in a corporate setting and helped her parents understand how she could manage to attend college...