alright youtubers this is me Jennifer Tardy I am your career success coach and
you are visiting another video from the black career success YouTube page if you
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plenty of other videos coming your way so today is a second installment of my
hashtag series where I'm working to explain the 3 hashtags that are most
significant to our movement within black career success com so the second hashtag
is black careers matter now I'm going to share with you seven of the reasons what
I feel personally feel that black career success matters and I'd also love to
hear from you whether you're using a hashtag on your social media or whether
you are using it within the comments below tell me why you feel that black
career success is important or what black career success means so for me
black career success means that there are more senior leaders who look just
like me who may have locks in their hair who may have the same skin tone who may
just even understand my perspective there are more senior leaders within our
organization who look and behave similar to me the next thing is black career
success means that I get closer and closer to being able to bring my whole
self to work I will no longer feel that I need to leave a certain part of me a
certain part of Who I am at the front door of the organization I can bring my
whole self to work whether I use certain jargon whether I like to wear my hair
certain weight whether I like to dress a certain way without feeling like I'm
going to be penalized left behind misunderstood without
feeling like I'm going to be asked a million questions about my specific
culture black career success means that success is no longer viewed as a
straight white male so I ran across some research that
stated that that people feel that when you think of success you think of a
straight white male and the even more disheartening thing about that study
said that even black people saw it the same way even people of color saw it the
same way that success when you think about success is a straight white male
so black career success to me means that that whole notion gets redefined
altogether black career success to me means that within my company there are
more mentors sponsors advocates who look just like me I am able to be a Protege
without worrying that nobody's going to want to represent me because
statistically people who have protegees they find protégés NK's who look just
like them and if there aren't enough of us and senior leadership positions how
are we all going to have mentors and protegees or at least advocates when
we're not in the room black career success to me means that there will be
reductions in poverty and if there are reductions in poverty there's reductions
in crime reductions in crime means there reductions in jail time and recidivism
got it which means people returning and returning to jail black career success
means that we can afford to keep money in our own pockets in our own homes and
in our own communities and that's how it breaks us from this never-ending cycle
of poverty and crime and anything similar to that in our own
communities black career success to me means that we have more independence
from public assistance and we have more opportunities to choose our education
our housing and childcare black career success to me means that we can easily
take care of ourselves our own health whether it's our mental emotional or
physical health it means that we have a better chance to live to survive and to
thrive so that's what black career success means to me and again I want to
hear from you what does black career success mean to you what does black
career success look like to you be sure to use the hashtag tell us in
the comments to tell us on your social media and I'll be back with our last
hashtag in a moment but in the meantime have a great day
and again I'm Jennifer Tardy I'm your black career success coach take care