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.
Creative Sourcing Strategies: Actionable Advice for Tackling Hard-to-Fill Roles and Programs
Mar 13, 2025
Every recruiter knows the frustration of a hard-to-fill role. Unlike high-demand positions where you’re choosing between dozens of qualified candidates, these roles either receive very few applicants or an overwhelming number of unqualified ones. Whether it’s a niche skill set, lack of candidate awareness, or low interest, the question remains the same: What do you do when you have a role you just can’t fill?
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31 Companies With Impactful Initiatives to Support Their LGBTQ Employees
To create the best workplace culture and community, every employee should feel supported and valued by their employer. However, a study done by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) found that 46% of LGBTQ workers say they are closeted at work, and the top reason they don’t report negative comments they hear is that they don’t think anything will be done about it.
24 Companies With Standout – And Effective – Diversity Recruiting Strategies
Whether you’re a hiring manager at a Fortune 500 company or the founder of a growing startup, it’s your job to build the best team possible. While every company has different hiring needs, building a team made up of diverse individuals is essential no matter the company size or department. But finding great candidates from a variety of backgrounds isn’t always easy, especially if a team is fairly homogenous to begin with. However, there are many companies that are getting it right, and their documented diversity recruiting strategies are great examples of how to approach hiring. There are a number of ways to design your hiring process to increase diversity but you have to start somewhere – here are the strategies of 24 companies to model your own processes after.
10 Women’s Colleges With Strong Business Programs
Women earn almost half of all business degrees (46%) awarded annually, meaning a large pool of talented female candidates are continuously entering the workforce. One of the best ways to tap into this pool is to recruit from women’s colleges.
10 Women's Colleges with Strong Computer Science Programs
Despite making up nearly 60% of undergraduate enrollment, women only receive around 31% of computer science degrees awarded in the U.S. every year. Therefore, recruiting a gender-balanced slate of top computer science talent can prove challenging. However, all women’s colleges provide a great solution to this problem.
25 Virtual Recruitment Event Ideas
Learn more about how to execute a successful recruitment events strategy via our guide, "100 Events & How to Do Them."
15 Companies Investing in an Efficient and Enjoyable Candidate Experience
Even in a job market favoring employers, there’s no room for companies to deliver a poor candidate experience. Besides missing out on great candidates, a bad candidate experience reflects negatively on your company, and can result in poor reviews on career sites like Glassdoor. Even if a candidate isn’t the right fit for a position, they should still come away from the interviewing process with a positive view of the company and feel like their time, energy, and effort was valued. It’s also important to think of the long-term implications of a bad experience, as studies show that companies lose a significant portion of customers and revenue over negative candidate experiences.
Introducing: RippleMatch's First-Ever Campus Forward Award Honorees
We all know 2020 was an unprecedented year – and college recruitment teams had to adapt their strategies through it all. That’s why RippleMatch is proud to announce the 2021 Honorees of our first-ever Campus Forward Awards.
5 University Recruiting Trends to Know for 2021
It's been an unprecedented and challenging year, and college recruitment looks different than ever before.
Why Employers Should Think Twice About Prioritizing GPA in Candidate Evaluations
What makes a candidate qualified for a specific position? Most hiring managers and recruiters look to factors like past experience, references, and assessments. But for entry-level hiring, GPA is often used as a hard filter and a tool to assess and compare candidates. According to the NACE 2019 Job Outlook Survey, 73% of employers planned to use GPA to screen candidates (the highest percentage since 2013), with the most common hard filters set at 3.0.
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