Two summers ago, as the Covid-19 pandemic ripped through New York, Niani Tolbert feared she was about to hit rock bottom.
Tolbert had lost her job as a tech recruiter months earlier. “I was broke, furloughed and scared,” she tells CNBC Make It. “I didn’t know how I’d afford to stay in New York City or where my career was going.”
That June, she watched as millions of people took to the streets to protest the police killing of George Floyd — and while she wasn’t comfortable joining the crowds and risking exposure to the virus, watching the marches stirred something within her.
The best contribution she could make to the racial justice movement, she decided, was donating her time and expertise as a recruiter to help other people of color, like her, who were struggling to find work during the pandemic.
Tolbert put a request out on LinkedIn: Would HR professionals join her in donating an hour of their time to review the resumes of 19 Black women in honor of Juneteenth?
Her post quickly went viral on the platform, and within weeks, Tolbert was able to coordinate more than 500 resume review sessions between Black women and hiring managers.
Leading the volunteer effort gave Tolbert “a sense of purpose when everything else felt unstable,” the 29-year-old wrote in a subsequent LinkedIn post.
She decided to turn the initiative, called #HireBlack, into her full-time job: Now, #HireBlack offers hiring events, an annual summit, career workshops, a job board and other career resources...
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