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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9 Colleges and Universities With The Most Gender-Balanced Computer Science Programs
At most colleges and universities, computer science programs remain male-dominated spaces and on average, around 18% of computer science degrees are awarded to women. However, there are several colleges – in addition to women’s colleges – that have managed to exceed national averages and create a more gender-balanced program through specific initiatives and retention strategies. While other programs may graduate an overall higher quantity of female CS majors due to their class size, these colleges and universities continuously work to improve representation in their programs. See the gender breakdown and learn more about their initiatives, below.
10 Hispanic-Serving Institutions With Strong STEM Programs
Despite comprising almost 18.5% of the U.S. workforce, Hispanic and Latinx workers account for only 8% of all STEM workers. With this underrepresentation, it’s essential for companies hiring for science, technology, and engineering roles to craft strategies to diversify their pipeline and increase representation within their teams. While there are several ways to improve the diversity of your pipeline at the entry-level – from partnering with niche organizations to sourcing – one surefire way is to visit campuses with higher populations of underrepresented groups.
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.
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.
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 Prevent Candidates from Reneging After Accepting an Offer
As the labor market heats up, some recruiters are experiencing an increase in candidates reneging on a job offer. Although this is a fairly common phenomenon—a 2019 survey from Robert Half found that 28% of professionals have backed out after accepting a job offer—reneging can be time-consuming and costly for employers. With this in mind, here are a few measures you can build into your recruitment process in order to minimize reneges from entry-level candidates.
Investing in the Future: How To Build Out an Early ID Strategy Without Overloading Your Team
In today’s fast-moving campus recruitment landscape, it can sometimes be difficult to think beyond next month, let alone plan ahead a year or two. However, if you want to ensure that you have a continuous pipeline of top, diverse talent, it’s important that you invest in Early ID programs. But don’t worry. These programs don’t have to be overly complicated or take up too much of your time to be impactful.
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.
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