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The Rise of the AI Generalist: How to Adapt Your Entry-Level Hiring Strategy to Hire Difference-Makers
Aug 26, 2025

If you lead early-career hiring, you’re probably bracing for tougher conversations with your CFO. In most industries, hiring targets are getting smaller, budgets are tightening, and the instinct might be to scale back entry-level hiring. After all, if AI is automating more of the “starter” work, do you still need as many junior hires?

Ushering in a New Era at RippleMatch: Building the Future of Hiring
Aug 18, 2025

Three years ago, I chose to join RippleMatch because I felt an immediate connection to its mission of expanding access to opportunity. I saw a product and a team with the potential to fundamentally change how hiring works in today’s world, making it fairer, faster, smarter, and more human. My own journey began in another country at a school few people here had ever heard of, so joining the leadership team of a New York-based tech startup felt like a major milestone in my career. I had worked hard to get to that point, but I also had quite a bit of luck along the way. I was fortunate enough to cross paths with some amazing people who helped me push my career and life forward in ways I never thought were possible. To me, RippleMatch has always felt like a way to pass some of that luck forward and help others access the kind of opportunity that changed my own life.

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Balancing a School-Agnostic and Target-Schools Recruitment Strategy
RippleMatch
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
RippleMatch
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
RippleMatch
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.
How Campus Recruiters Are Approaching the Fall 2021 Recruitment Season
RippleMatch
There’s no doubt about it. We’re in a better place this summer than last. We know how to use Zoom, are pros at hosting virtual events, and may even have a return-to-office plan all set. Compared to the chaos we faced in the summer of 2020, there’s a lot to be excited about as we plan for fall recruiting this year.
How to Plan for a Hybrid Campus Recruiting Season This Fall
RippleMatch
For years, campus recruiting looked essentially the same every fall. You’d fill out your schedule with a full slate of on-campus, in-person career fairs and recruitment events, relying heavily on specific schools to fill positions. But in 2020, everything changed. Companies were forced to recruit almost entirely virtually, learning how to navigate everything from events to interviews on Zoom. This year, with students returning to campus nationwide, in-person events are popping up on the schedule once again. But the campus recruitment landscape has been changed forever.
How 10 Companies Celebrated Pride Month in 2021
RippleMatch
When focusing on D&I in the workplace, it’s important that the inclusion part of the equation isn’t pushed aside. Companies must create inclusive environments for their employees in order to ensure they’re happy, feel safe, and are able to work to the best of their abilities. One way they can do so is by recognizing and celebrating occasions that matter to their employees, like Juneteenth and Pride Month.
RippleMatch To Present New Data On What Underrepresented Candidates Value In The Workplace At 2021 NACE Conference & Expo
RippleMatch
June 5, 2021 - New York, NY - RippleMatch, the leading early career recruiting platform, today announced that it will be presenting proprietary insights collected from thousands of Gen Z candidates who are part of a group that is traditionally underrepresented at work. These insights will be shared live during the 2021 NACE Conference & Expo as part of RippleMatch's data webinar on June 7 at 12:15 pm ET.
5 Ways to Showcase A City When an Internship is Remote
RippleMatch
Internships serve several purposes: as well as introducing potential new hires to your company and its workplace culture, they are an opportunity for interns to experience your city and determine whether they’d be happy relocating there to work with you.
Intern Hell Week: When Summer Programming and Fall Recruitment Planning Overlap
Kate Beckman
When you work as a campus recruiter, you are expected to juggle many responsibilities at once. When I managed the internship program for a Fortune 500 company, I was responsible for both the recruitment cycle and summer programming. Currently I work at RippleMatch, a tech platform that supports companies in virtual and diversity recruitment for early career roles. I’ve spoken to a number of talent professionals who manage the internship programs at their companies, and many of them are in the same position that I was in–small team, mounting responsibilities, and the need to stay one step ahead of the campus recruitment cycle to prepare for the following year.
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