Last Tuesday, about 50 Harvard undergraduates met in the East Dining Room of the Harvard Faculty Club for a McKinsey & Co. recruiting event.
The event was like many such recruiting gatherings before it, with one key exception--all of the attendees were women.
According to Liz S. Hilton Segel '92, a McKinsey assistant principal who attended the event, the gathering was an effort to show women undergraduates the human side of the firm--that "it is an intimate, friendly place to work."
"We make the recruitment of women and people from all diverse backgrounds a major part of our recruiting efforts," Hilton Segel says.
With a booming economy and the tightest labor market in recent history, firms that were once predominately white and male are increasingly tailoring their recruitment efforts to attract people who are underrepresented in the corporate world: women, minorities and gay students.
And students are taking notice.
"It's nice when they bring women together. A lot of the time there aren't visible role models because it's a pretty male-dominated field," said Maureen P. Murphy '01, who attended the McKinsey function.
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