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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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.
The Top 10 Public Universities With The Best STEM Programs
Jobs in STEM have some of the highest projected growth rates. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicting a 10.8% growth in STEM employment from 2016 to 2026, compared to the overall average of 7.4%. With this expansion in available jobs there are many colleges putting an emphasis on their STEM programs to increase the amount of highly skilled talent entering the workforce. While private schools like MIT and Johns Hopkins might first come to mind for STEM talent, there are dozens of public universities that provide an excellent top-ranked STEM education. Public colleges offer a college experience to students usually at a lower cost, enabling a more diverse set of students to attend. Expand your university recruiting pipeline and check out these top public schools for STEM.
30 Colleges and Universities That Graduate the Highest Number of Female Computer Science Majors in the U.S.
When recruiting for your software engineering roles and internships, you might generate your list of target schools from our list of the most gender-balanced computer science programs. But your talent acquisition strategy will also benefit from targeting these schools that graduate the highest quantity of female computer science majors each year.
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.
Meet the Winners of the 2021 Campus Recruiting Choice Awards
After hundreds of nominations, a month of voting, and over 15,000 votes cast by the public, we’re proud to share the winners of the 2021 Campus Recruiting Choice Awards. These outstanding campus recruiting professionals come from companies across industries, reflect campus programs of all sizes, and represent a range of experience levels. Each one overcame the challenges of a tumultuous year to lead with empathy, innovate, and make their mark on the industry.
How RippleMatch Events Can Help You Engage With And Hire Your Ideal Candidates
Recruitment events have traditionally been a great way to find and engage top candidates. However, they’re not without their challenges. At large career fairs, you may speak to hundreds of students in one day. It can be difficult to keep track of which ones stood out, and even more challenging to follow up with them afterwards. Self-hosted virtual events are a good way to target specific groups with hyper-relevant content, but marketing the events and getting RSVPs is easier said than done.
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