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Investing in the Future: How To Build Out an Early ID Strategy Without Overloading Your Team

Apr 01, 2025

In today’s fast-moving campus recruitment landscape, it can be difficult to think beyond the next month—let alone plan for next year. But if you want to ensure you have a continuous pipeline of top talent, investing in Early ID programs is essential. In fact, RippleMatch data finds that 60% of candidates say they go directly to a company's career page to check out available opportunities when searching for a job or internship. That means the early recognition you build early on can have a big impact in the kind of talent you can attract later on.

How to Prevent Candidates from Reneging After Accepting an Offer

Mar 24, 2025

In today’s hiring landscape, securing an offer acceptance doesn’t mean your job is done. With 60% of Gen Z candidates continuing to passively search for roles after accepting an offer and a number of employers reporting that candidates are reneging on offers, employers must think strategically about how to reduce post-offer fallout—and it starts well before a candidate’s first day.

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The Most In-Demand Skills For Entry-Level Candidates On Our Platform

Kate Beckman

Jan 08, 2019

What’s the top skill entry-level candidates should have when entering today’s job market? According to data collected from the recruiters that use our platform, Microsoft Excel still reigns supreme as an essential skill for recent college grads.

The Top 4 University Recruiting Trends To Know In 2019

Kate Beckman

Jan 02, 2019

Read our article on 'University Recruitment Trends to Watch in 2020' here.

This Entry-Level Sales Role is One of the Fastest Growing Jobs in the U.S.

Kate Beckman

Dec 17, 2018

Recruiting top sales talent is a challenge for any organization, but especially for B2B companies looking to scale rapidly. As it turns out, the shortage of entry-level sales talent isn’t in your imagination. The new ‘LinkedIn 2018 U.S. Emerging Job Report’ reveals that Sales Development Representatives, or roles that requires skills such as prospecting and lead generation, is the 9th fastest growing job in the U.S. The demand for qualified SDRs has grown by 400% in the last five years, according to the report, meaning that companies will have to work even harder to develop a strategy to find qualified SDRs and BDRs.

Tips For Evaluating Entry-Level Sales Candidates

Kate Beckman

Dec 12, 2018

A team of great business development representatives (BDRs) or sales development representatives (SDRs) can change the trajectory of your organization, generating high-quality leads at the top of the funnel and scaling up your customer base. A team of bad BDRs can also change the trajectory of your organization – for worse.

Recruiters Value ‘Experience’ More than GPA and School Prestige, Data Shows

Kate Beckman

Dec 07, 2018

Almost five years ago, Google announced that they would no longer determine a candidate’s potential for success based on academic pedigree such as school prestige and GPA. The tech giant instead looks at prior experience, problem-solving skills, and learning ability as indicators of a strong candidate. Now, Google’s approach to recruiting seems to be part of a larger trend.

Will Gen Z be the Next Generation of Job Hoppers?

Kate Beckman

Dec 06, 2018

For better or for worse, millennials have been labeled as a generation of job hoppers. A 2016 report from Gallup revealed that 21 percent of millennials said they changed jobs in the past year, three times more likely than their non-millennials counterparts. Another analysis of LinkedIn profile data found that millennials changed jobs more often within the first five years of graduating than previous generations did within five years of graduating. And research from global staffing firm Robert Half found that 75 percent of employees ages 18 to 34 (millennials + old Gen Z’ers) view job hopping as beneficial to their careers, compared to 59 percent of workers ages 35 to 54, and 51 percent of those 55 and older.