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 Top Resources Candidates Use To Research The Companies They Want To Work For
Find out how today's entry-level candidates are engaging with employers – download our infographic on the top resources candidates use to research companies here.
Nearly 60% of Candidates Say A Company’s Mission And Values Sparked Their Interest In Interviewing For A Role
We know that professional development and company culture are extremely important to early-career candidates in their job search. But when it comes to interviewing with specific companies, a company’s mission and values plays the biggest role in sparking candidate interest.
Proactive Outreach Can Triple The Share Of Qualified Candidates That Want to Work For You
You write your job description, define your requirements, and post it on a job board. Now, you wait for the applications to roll in. You think your company and the job are pretty great, so it’s only a matter of time before you start receiving applications from the best candidates on the market. Right?
5 Ways Companies Can Support the Mental Health of Their Young Employees
I was diagnosed with anxiety and a panic disorder when I was a sophomore in high school. Coming to terms with this diagnosis took a lot of therapy, appropriate medications and personal growth, which made me realize that this issue would be something that infiltrated every part of my life. This means that, yeah, I’d face anxiety during big changes in my life, but even in a classroom or cubicle. Any location—no matter how much I enjoyed myself—would become viable grounds for a panic attack.
The Top Reasons Entry-Level Candidates Do (And Don’t) Accept Job Offers
In a tight labor market, there’s no guarantee that the offer you extend to your ideal candidate will be accepted – even when you’re dealing with entry-level candidates. From competing offers to location, there are countless reasons a candidate could decide to turn down a job offer. So what’s really going through a candidate’s head when they accept (or reject) your job offer?
The Most In-Demand Skills For Entry-Level Candidates On Our Platform
What’s the top skill entry-level candidates should have when entering today’s job market? According to data collected from the recruiters that use our platform, Microsoft Excel still reigns supreme as an essential skill for recent college grads.
6 Ways to Make Entry-Level Employees Feel Valued in the Workplace
When it comes to building a great team, finding top talent is only half the battle. Retaining that talent, whether it’s your entry-level employees or senior management, is extremely important, as high employee turnover is costly and disruptive to other team members. In addition to offering competitive pay and a great culture, making your employees feel valued in the workplace is an important part of retention. However, it can be easy to overlook this for your entry-level employees.
The Top 4 University Recruiting Trends To Know In 2019
Read our article on 'University Recruitment Trends to Watch in 2020' here.
7 Mistakes To Avoid When Hiring Sales Development Representatives (SDRs)
Expanding your sales team should correlate directly with the growth of your organization – but it all comes down to hiring the right people. Building a killer sales team starts with filling the roles that generate opportunities at the top of the funnel: Sales development representatives (SDRs). But despite often being labeled as an “entry-level sales role,” hiring talented SDRs is extremely challenging, and it’s easy to get wrong. From placing too much emphasis on verbal communication skills to hiring an uncoachable SDR, here are the seven biggest mistakes we see companies make when hiring entry level sales candidates.
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