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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24 Companies with Innovative and Award-Winning Accessibility Practices
Making your workplace accessible and friendly to potential and current employees with disabilities is not just the right thing to do—it will make your business stronger. A study conducted by Accenture, the American Association of People with Disabilities, and Disability: In found that organizations prioritizing accessibility had 28 percent higher revenue, and people with disabilities represent the third-largest market segment in the United States. By bringing in employees with different abilities and backgrounds, your business will make better products, understand your customers more, and will foster an open, strong community.
A Running List of Studies and Reports on the Generation Z Workforce
Millennials are currently the largest generation in the U.S. labor force, but it’s Generation Z that will be filling internships and entry-level roles for years to come. With the oldest members of Generation Z now entering the workforce, it’s essential for companies to understand how their youngest employees will operate in the workforce.
How to Identify and Remove Barriers to Diversity from Your College Recruitment Process
College recruitment teams know how important it is to curate diverse hiring pipelines. But sometimes, barriers to diversity – such as archaic role requirements or biased assessments – make their way into the hiring process, limiting the talent pool and unintentionally creating an uneven playing field.
5 Facts to Know about Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Over the last 10 years, the Hispanic and Latinx population in the U.S. has increased by almost 10 million. As these numbers continue to grow, universities across the country make room for more Hispanic and Latinx students, while also creating culturally-inclusive courses and campus organizations that advocate for minority students. Hispanic-Serving Institutions, or schools with 25% or more Hispanic and Latinx enrollment, are doing just that.
4 Tips For Recruiting at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are not only educational centers for Hispanic and Latinx students – they’re cultural centers, too. These are schools with 25% or more Hispanic and Latinx enrollment, and offer curriculum and programs centered around students’ heritage. Students may choose these institutions because they’re located close to home, cost-friendly, or because they offer an inclusive experience that non-HSIs do not.
12 Hispanic-Serving Institutions With Strong Business Programs
Employment rates in the business and finance industry are expected to grow 7% in the next 8 years. Companies looking for talented entry-level candidates to fill their business roles should establish a presence at 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. With over 550 HSIs in the U.S., there are a lot of schools to choose from – so we made a list of 12 HSIs and emerging HSIs ranked in the top 100 schools for best business programs to connect with.
10 Hispanic-Serving Institutions with Strong Liberal Arts Programs
Colleges that take pride in their diverse learning environment also take pride in molding creative thinkers and educational leaders who are passionate about creating social change. These schools value the versatility of a liberal arts degree and encourage their students to explore the endless possibilities of a degree in sociology, history, creative arts, language, and more. Many employers value the critical thinking skills instilled by a liberal arts education, and seek out these students for their entry-level positions. If you’re an employer who is looking to hire talented liberal arts students, be sure you’re widening your search to include a range of schools, like Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
The Top Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) to Recruit Entry-Level Candidates
To fill talent pipelines with high-caliber entry-level and early-career candidates from diverse backgrounds, many companies have focused on recruiting at HBCUs, Women’s Colleges, and HSIs. The latter of the three – Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) – are defined as non-profit institutions of higher learning with a full-time undergraduate population of at least 25% Hispanic. HSIs have been around since the 1980s. In 1992, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities prompted Congress to formally recognize campuses with high Hispanic enrollment as Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and allocate federal appropriations.
6 Ways to Make Your Hiring Process More Inclusive for Low-Income College Students
Somewhere in the middle of the “broke college student” trope is a range of financial situations that exist among today’s college students. Some students have some or all of their tuition paid for; some students receive a monthly allowance to cover their cost-of-living expenses; most students work, but the number of hours varies across financial backgrounds. Of the estimated 20 million students receiving an undergraduate education, nearly a third – 6.2 million – come from low-income families and receive little to no financial support. While the differences in students' financial situations has always had an impact on collegiate experience, the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the inequalities that exist for students on campus.
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