A hiring company posted a job looking for 'preferably Caucasian' candidates. It now says it fired the employees responsible.

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• The staffing firm Cynet Systems apologized for a job listing for "preferably Caucasian" candidates for an IT job.
• The company said it fired the employees responsible for the posting.
• "Cynet apologizes for the anger & frustration caused by the offensive job post," the company wrote. "It does not reflect our core values of inclusivity & equality."
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A staffing firm said it fired the employees who were responsible for a racist job listing that asked for "preferably Caucasian" candidates.

The firm, Cynet Systems, helps companies find employees by creating job listings and finding candidates for different positions. In a LinkedIn post Sunday night, it said the listing — which was for an information and technology services job in Tampa, Florida at a pharmaceutical company — did not represent the company's values.

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