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 Top Schools to Find Great Technical Talent
It’s a challenge many organizations face: finding and hiring top tech talent. In a competitive job market where candidates have numerous options, it can be even more difficult to fill your highest-priority roles. If you’re struggling to find great technical talent at the early career level, it’s important that you re-evaluate your recruitment methods to determine if you’re missing opportunities to connect with great candidates.
Celebrating Success in Campus Recruiting
Campus recruiting is hard. Whether you’re an individual recruiter on a large team, or a one-person department doing everything from sourcing to managing an entire internship program, every day brings new challenges. Add in a global pandemic and a sudden shift to virtual recruiting, and it’s clear that the talent professionals who’ve weathered the storm are nothing short of rockstars.
38 Recruiters Share What They Love About Working in Campus Recruitment
We’re thrilled to recognize hard-working early career talent acquisition professionals during Campus Recruiter Appreciation Week! Campus recruiters play an integral role in their organizations, finding top talent for internships and early-career positions. They also make a huge difference in students’ lives, helping them begin a new phase by getting them started in their careers.
Increasing Student Engagement and Building Employer Brand During Another Virtual Recruitment Season
Catching students’ attention, getting them interested in your company, and keeping them engaged are key concerns of many campus recruitment teams. These challenges have been exacerbated by the move to virtual recruitment over the last two years. With virtual recruitment continuing this fall, recruiters are struggling to get their brand out there and connect with students without being able to physically visit campuses.
10 Hispanic-Serving Institutions with Strong Computer Science Programs
Despite comprising almost 18% of the U.S. workforce, Hispanic and Latinx professionals only make up around 6% of software engineering and computer scientist roles. With Hispanic and Latinx individuals vastly underrepresented in tech, it’s essential for employers to develop strategies to connect with these candidates at the entry-level. One way employers can increase representation in this field is by forming relationships with Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), or colleges with 25% or more Hispanic and Latinx students, and emerging HSIs, schools with 15% to 24% Hispanic and Latinx population. HSIs house more than two-thirds of all Hispanic and Latinx students in the country, and many of them have extremely strong Computer Science programs.
How to Craft an Employer Brand that Speaks to What Early Career Candidates Value
Building your employer brand is a critical part of engaging candidates and attracting top talent to your organization. How do you craft your employer brand to appeal to today’s young job seekers? By speaking to what they value in the workplace.
The Workforce of the Future: Emerging Trends That Are Here to Stay
RippleMatch’s 2021 Fall User Conference was filled with information-packed sessions and workshops on the future of campus recruiting. The conference concluded with a Leadership Roundtable moderated by Andrew Myers, RippleMatch’s CEO and Founder. He was joined for the discussion by Cindy Loggins, the Director of Global University Recruiting and Programs at eBay, Bruce Soltys, AVP of Talent Acquisition Sourcing Strategies at Travelers, and Stephanie Turner, Campus Sourcing Leader, Talent Attraction and Acquisition at EY.
Balancing a School-Agnostic and Target-Schools Recruitment Strategy
For many years, companies focused their early career recruiting efforts on a core set of target schools. Fall recruitment season would be filled with trips to campuses for endless career fairs and interviews. Almost all hiring for internships and entry-level positions came from the same schools, year after year.
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