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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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.
How Our Startup Prioritized Diversity and Built an Engineering Team That’s 50% Women
Building a diverse team was one of the earliest and most intuitive decisions I took with Patrick Schmitt, my Co-Founder at FreeWill. He’s a white man from New England with a background in non profits, I am an Asian-American woman who grew up in Washington and worked in the private sector since graduating college.
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?
What Is Intersectionality And What Does It Have To Do With Your Hiring Process?
It’s been five years since Google released its first diversity report, sparking other large tech companies to do the same. Since then, many companies – not only in the tech sector – have made diversity recruiting a clear priority, acknowledging the lack of women and people of color in technical and leadership roles and pledging to increase the diversity of their teams.
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.
This Entry-Level Sales Role is One of the Fastest Growing Jobs in the U.S.
Recruiting top sales talent is a challenge for any organization, but especially for B2B companies looking to scale rapidly. As it turns out, the shortage of entry-level sales talent isn’t in your imagination. The new ‘LinkedIn 2018 U.S. Emerging Job Report’ reveals that Sales Development Representatives, or roles that requires skills such as prospecting and lead generation, is the 9th fastest growing job in the U.S. The demand for qualified SDRs has grown by 400% in the last five years, according to the report, meaning that companies will have to work even harder to develop a strategy to find qualified SDRs and BDRs.
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