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RippleMatch x CodeSignal: Powering Skills-Based Hiring in Early-Career
Oct 20, 2025

At RippleMatch, we’ve always believed that opportunity should be based on what you can do, not where you went to school. That’s why we’re especially excited to share our new partnership and deeper integration with CodeSignal, which brings verified technical and professional skill certifications directly into the RippleMatch marketplace.

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?

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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.
7 Unique and Engaging Careers Pages To Inspire Your Recruitment Marketing
Kate Beckman
From highlighting office culture to showcasing company values, your careers page is your chance to share everything your company has to offer. And with the careers page ranking as the No. 1 source of information for entry-level candidates researching a company, it’s more important than ever to create a page that will engage and educate candidates as they begin the application process.
8 Best Practices To Recruit and Retain Military Talent
RippleMatch
Each year, more than 200,000 servicemen and women separate from active duty in the U.S. military. These highly-trained individuals are a rich source of diversity and leadership as they enter the civilian workforce, and are a great asset to the companies they join following their service. To better recruit and retain military talent, keep these eight best practices in mind when forming your talent acquisition strategies.
4 Areas of the Hiring Process That Are Most Susceptible to Unconscious Bias
RippleMatch
In today’s hiring landscape, most companies have a plan to recruit diverse talent. A recent survey by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) survey showed 57% of companies claim to have plans to recruit diverse talent in 2019, and a survey of employers through the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) found that 88% of surveyed companies have formal diversity recruiting initiatives. However, even with good intentions and formalized initiatives, unconscious bias can creep into the process and hinder efforts to recruit a truly diverse workforce – especially if the existing team doing the hiring is mostly homogenous.
8 Easy Ways to Make Your Hiring Process Inclusive for Candidates With Mental Health Issues
RippleMatch
Hiring a new candidate is just as much about them getting to know your business as it is about finding a great asset to the team. Unless the candidate has been employed by your business before or is transferring internally, the hiring experience is your chance to make a good first impression with your potential new hire. Unfortunately, so many businesses jeopardize their chances of hiring a great candidate by having a stressful, lengthy, or otherwise unfriendly hiring practice.
5 ‘Negative’ Stereotypes About Gen Z That Will Actually Help Them in the Workplace
Sharon Uche, Ph.D.
Let’s be frank – millennials don’t have the best reputation. Described through the years as entitled, difficult to manage, and bad at taking criticism, there are plenty of negative stereotypes pinned to millennials, deserved or not. And with Generation Z (born mid-1990s to 2012) being their successors, some may say the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree.
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