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Monday, April 30, 2007

Minnesota companies have learned how to recruit minority workers. Now the problem is ... Keeping them

Minnesota companies have learned how to recruit minority workers. Now the problem is ... Keeping them
In StarTribune.com Business
Julie Griffith came to the Twin Cities with a fresh MBA from Rice University for a good marketing job at American Express Financial Advisors in the summer of 2004. She barely made it a year before going back to Houston, having lived long enough with what African-Americans call "being one of the onlies" -- the only black person in a department or in the neighborhood. "I really enjoyed the people I met there, specifically the African-American professional community," said Griffith, now 32 and running her own public relations firm in Houston.

 



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