You have to stop and consider how that looks though... the black guy brings in 66% black candidates. When blacks are 13% of the population, and much less than that of the technical IT-guy population. Would look like you're cherry-picking black guys to bring in. That might not be reality because they may just be your friends like you said; just saying think how that looks to an outside observer.
Unless your race is obvious from your resume how do you avoid bringing in whomever applies and is qualified? Would your friends not have gotten interviews without your intervention?
Just for clarity, would they not have gotten an interview because they are underqualified or because of racism?
When I was a software dev there were a few indian females that seemed to hang on at jobs regardless of how useless they were. To be fair they weren't particularly more useless than a lot of the useless white guys, but they weren't subject to the same treatment as the white guys, either.
When I was in IT admin at BigBankCorp, my "project manager" was a black woman who had absolutely no idea how our job was performed, so we required both a training manager and a team leader for the 5-10 of us. The team lead was a competent indian who had lived here for many years.
You're confusing nepotism with affirmative action.
They were more than qualified. The guy we hired was pretty much an enterprise level architect looking for his last gig before retirement. It would have been silly not to hire this guy. Friends be damned. The other positions were analyst level. My friends would be over qualified and would even consider a pay cut obviously.
I am fully aware what both are. But this is why we need AA because nepotism exists. I was giving the example of my why experience.
Wait what? You got your friends into interview and said they wouldn't have gotten interviews of they were pulled out of the general candidate pool. Your statement saying we need AA because of nepotism is completely contradicting your actions.
I guess I don't understand the facts of your situation then...
My friends would not have gotten an interview because of the sheer number of candidates. My friends would not have gotten the interview if my bosses were solely doing the choosing of the interview candidates. They only got the interview because of me being a black dude, knowing other black dudes in the field. I am in no way contradicting myself. I am fully aware of the irony of my example like I said in a previous post.
Sorry...because we were told to bring some people in. It's not like we are searching thru resumes via HR.
So, your friends got interviews because they had connections with a guy in the industry who recommended them not on the basis of race but because he knew them and knew their work and thought they were qualified and would do a good job, unfortunately some rock star guy got the job. But we need AA because of this?