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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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RippleMatch Product Pulse Newsletter: July Edition
RippleMatch
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: 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
Kate Beckman
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!
Our Latest AI Innovation: AI Chat Filtering
RippleMatch
Filter for Candidates easily using natural language prompts Recruiting top talent is complex, but it doesn’t have to be time-consuming or cumbersome. With RippleMatch, you instantly find the best candidates in your pipeline and automatically source the talent you're missing. This means you spend 70% less time on resume reviews and manual sourcing, allowing you to focus on engaging with high-quality candidates and improving your recruitment results.
How Talent Leaders Are Balancing AI and Human-Centric Hiring: Key Takeaways From Our NYC Micro-Summit
Kate Beckman
Last Thursday, the RippleMatch team was thrilled to welcome nearly 50 talent acquisition professionals and campus recruitment teams to our NYC office to talk about one of the most pressing topics in today’s landscape: AI and its impact on the human experience in hiring.
How You Can Make the Most Out of Your Pipeline in the Mass-Apply Era
RippleMatch
Recruiting is tough, and this year will be more challenging than ever. Talent teams have big goals this year, with critical hiring and diversity targets, intense time-pressure, and serious competition for the best candidates. But those big goals aren’t coming with big budgets. In fact, teams today are growing leaner, making it essential to maximize every dollar spent and every hour of a team member’s time.
A Guide to Virtual Recruitment Events: What They Are and How to Approach Them
RippleMatch
Looking for a strategic partner to support both your in-person and virtual recruiting events strategies? Check out our buyer's guide for a recruiting events software that will meet all your needs.
Recruiting Events Software: 2023 Buyer’s Guide
RippleMatch
In a competitive talent landscape, recruitment events are a great way to engage with candidates, giving them an inside look at your organization, culture, employees, and opportunities to help them make informed decisions about where they might want to work. And by offering some of those events virtually, you open the door to connecting with a much more diverse slate of candidates from varying backgrounds, improving accessibility to your open roles. However, executing impactful recruitment events — both virtually and in-person — can be challenging to navigate, from inviting the right candidates to your events, quickly following up afterwards with applications to keep the momentum going, and pipelining attendees who aren’t great fits for your open roles right now.
Why a Quick Application Response Time Is Essential Today
Kate Beckman
In today’s competitive recruitment landscape, a quick application response time is an indispensable tool for employers looking to attract and retain top talent — especially at the early career level. That’s because Gen Z candidates searching for internship and entry-level roles today expect a quick feedback loop from companies, and prefer to be rejected than ‘ghosted’ during the hiring process.
Gen Z Recruiting Software: 2023 Buyer’s Guide
RippleMatch
In a competitive recruitment landscape, it's essential that talent teams have the right partner by their side to help them reach their hiring goals. This is especially true as talent teams are shrinking and they are being tasked to do more with less. For Gen Z talent especially, candidates are expecting high-tech and seamless recruiting processes from their future employers. By working with recruiting software that has Gen Z in mind, you can make strides on your internship and entry-level hiring goals, and bring in the best talent out there today.
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