Former Merck CEO urges companies to drop arbitrary college requirement for 1 million skilled Black job seekers, winning Franklin Institute award

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— IT positions that could be filled by skilled people with vocational training.

The effort picked up speed with the formal start of the OneTen program. Merck has “recredentialed” more than 1,400 positions and has hired or placed more than 350 Black workers into those spots, the company says. “It definitely hurts your confidence to some degree,” said Roberson, who started at Merck in August. “It can stop you from dreaming.”

“When you reduce the barriers that maybe disproportionately affect one group, you reduce them for everyone,” he said.

 

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