Career advisers in Boston and around the U.S. say though some sectors have farther to go than others, the job market for black women and other minorities graduating from college is improving.

Author Chaz Kyser, a journalism professor at Langston University in Oklahoma, recently published Embracing the Real World: The Black Woman’s Guide to Life After College — a career guide written for undergraduate black women on the premise graduates of all ethnicities need extra help navigating today’s job market.

Kyser said although she earned a dual degree in print journalism and sociology, the “book smarts” she gained in college failed to compensate for the lack of “professional smarts” she realized she would need to succeed as a black woman in the work world, she wrote in a press release about the book.

The corporate world presents the biggest obstacles for young women, she said, adding women of all ethnicities sometimes complain they are not given the same respect and acknowledgement afforded their male counterparts.

“Both black men and women say the same thing,” she continued in an email. “So, as a person who is black and a woman, we often experience what has been termed a ‘double outsider’ status, and don’t know where we quite fit in.”

Though the fact that she wrote an in-depth career guide for young black women might make it appear as if Kyser thinks her readers face an uphill battle in the working world, she says they have actually accomplished much in recent years and will continue to earn high-ranking positions.

“There has never been a better time in American history for black women with a college education,” she said, quoting her book’s introduction.

Boston University Career Services Office Assistant Director Debbie Halliday said she has seen employers become more eager to interview and hire minorities over the past few years.

“African-American students who come to our career fairs are sought after in a variety of industries and job types,” she said.

William Murrell, publisher from the media company Black Boston, which publishes literature geared toward the black community, said there has never been a better time for minorities to land jobs because employers often recruit “along the color line.”

“I think companies spend billions of dollars looking for minorities,” he said.

Though he said Kyser’s book will likely be a good resource for black women in college to begin looking at as early as their junior year, Murrell said they are already doing well.

“There are more black women graduating than black men,” he said. “There [have] been for the last 25 years.”