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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 Best Technology To Host Recruitment Webinars and Virtual Events: Key Features and Functionality
RippleMatch
For some college recruiters, especially those with limited travel budgets and a national reach, recruiting via webinars is nothing new. Some companies have utilized webinars, videos, social media, and virtual recruiting technology for years. But for those whose recruitment efforts have focused primarily on in-person, on-campus presentations, COVID-19 presents a new challenge – and a new opportunity – to engage with prospective candidates virtually. But how do you choose the right technology?
5 Ways to Personalize Your Hiring Process While Remote Recruiting
RippleMatch
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, many companies are finding themselves switching to remote recruiting to fill their entry-level roles or internships. Campus career centers are cancelling in-person events and companies are temporarily closing their offices, which makes face-to-face interaction – and personalization in the hiring process – more difficult to manage.
University Recruiting During The Coronavirus
Kate Beckman
As the number of cases of the novel coronavirus continue to increase in the U.S., colleges and universities such as Harvard University, Columbia University, Rice University, University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University are switching to online classes, suspending events, and asking students to vacate campus for the remainder of the semester to mitigate risk.
5 Ways to Prevent Candidate Ghosting
RippleMatch
One of the major recruitment trends to watch out for in 2020 is the recent phenomenon of “candidate ghosting.” “Ghosting” refers to suddenly losing contact with a candidate with whom you had been previously corresponding, and it can happen at any stage of the recruitment process. In fact, research from Randstad found that 43% of Gen Z candidates had accepted a job, but reneged on their offer before their first day. In other words, they “ghosted” their future employer in order to accept a different job or pursue a different path.
8 University Recruiting Professionals Share Their Expert Tips For Making the Most of a Campus Visit
Kate Beckman
In today’s talent acquisition landscape, campus visits remain an essential tool in the arsenal of many university recruiting teams. Even with the emergence of new recruitment technologies, companies still recognize the value of meeting students face-to-face, strengthening employer brand, and continuing relationships with career centers.
9 Companies With An Innovative Approach To Early-Career Recruiting
Kate Beckman
Check out our most recent list for 50 innovative companies with unique campus recruiting strategies in 2023 here.
How BMO Financial Group Is Using a Campus Influencer Program To Win Over Gen Z Talent
Kate Beckman
Today’s college students grew up with an endless supply of information at their fingertips. From social media to search engines, Generation Z has been wading through a stream of information since they could access the internet. As a result, they have developed intuitive filters to screen for what they do and don’t want to consume. With this selective focus, how can companies break through the noise and stand out to this generation?
4 University Recruitment Trends to Watch in 2020
Kate Beckman
Today’s college graduates are entering a workforce nearly unrecognizable from the start of the previous decade. A booming economy and a high demand for hard and soft skills have given Gen Z an advantageous entrance into the workforce, flipping the script on what it takes to recruit top entry-level candidates. Unlike previous years, employers no longer have their pick of any candidate, and entry-level candidates are more often dictating what a positive candidate experience looks like to them. Understanding what this generation wants out of their career and their interactions with a company is paramount to building meaningful relationships with these candidates.
4 Ideas for Early Talent Identification and Engagement
Kate Beckman
Most of us know that procrastination never pays off. So when it comes to university recruiting, proactively engaging with and identifying talent can pay dividends when it comes to hiring for your entry-level roles.
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