RippleMatch Product Pulse Newsletter: July Edition
Jul 31, 2024
Welcome to the RippleMatch Product Pulse, your monthly hub to learn about the products & features we’ve released to help you make the most of our platform.
Highlights this month include:
Highlights this month include:
- Interview Scheduling: Easily coordinate interviews within RippleMatch.
- Candidate Activity Feed: Get visibility into each candidate's journey in your hiring process.
- AI Chat Filter: Quickly find the best candidates for you with natural language prompts.
- Updates to our Communities product: New Themes and Templates that help you save time and own your brand identity.
Learn more about these features and other recent releases below!
3 Impactful Ways University Recruitment Teams Can Prepare For The 2024 Fall Season
Jul 19, 2024
The landscape of recruitment is always changing – are you ready for the latest challenges fall recruitment has for you? To help you prepare, we’ve identified 4 key areas to focus on to ensure you have a smooth and successful season, informed by recent data collected from hundreds of recruiters, thousands of Gen Z candidates, and thousands of data points pulled from user behavior on the RippleMatch platform.
For a more in-depth analysis at each of these areas, you can download our full Fall Readiness Guide here!
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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.
A Running List of Studies and Reports on the Generation Z Workforce
Millennials are currently the largest generation in the U.S. labor force, but it’s Generation Z that will be filling internships and entry-level roles for years to come. With the oldest members of Generation Z now entering the workforce, it’s essential for companies to understand how their youngest employees will operate in the workforce.
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