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?
Ushering in a New Era at RippleMatch: Building the Future of Hiring
Aug 18, 2025
Three years ago, I chose to join RippleMatch because I felt an immediate connection to its mission of expanding access to opportunity. I saw a product and a team with the potential to fundamentally change how hiring works in today’s world, making it fairer, faster, smarter, and more human. My own journey began in another country at a school few people here had ever heard of, so joining the leadership team of a New York-based tech startup felt like a major milestone in my career. I had worked hard to get to that point, but I also had quite a bit of luck along the way. I was fortunate enough to cross paths with some amazing people who helped me push my career and life forward in ways I never thought were possible. To me, RippleMatch has always felt like a way to pass some of that luck forward and help others access the kind of opportunity that changed my own life.
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RippleMatch Passes Bias Audit Unanimously
Unconscious bias during the hiring process is a real threat to building a more diverse and inclusive workforce. That’s because unchecked biases in both human and technology-assisted decision-making can disproportionately hurt underrepresented groups. In an effort to help employers combat bias in hiring, we are committed to ensuring our products limit both human and algorithmic bias to the greatest extent possible.
Measuring the ROI of Your Early Career Strategy
Having good data to power decision-making is more important now than ever — especially in the field of talent acquisition. That’s because even though top companies might be continuing to hire entry-level candidates and interns in 2023, the uncertain macroeconomy is causing early career recruitment teams to shift their priorities and refocus on high-impact efforts. And it takes data to understand what exactly those efforts should be. The benefit of collecting the right data to showcase the ROI of your team’s recruitment efforts is twofold; it will help you make the case to leadership for why early career is a good investment, and, with the pressure on leaner teams to do more with less, it will help you focus on the strategies that are actually working. But where do you begin?
5 Cost-Effective Ways to Hire Your Next Class of Interns
Internship programs are a highly cost-effective method for recruiting full-time talent — which is especially crucial during an economic downturn like the one we are currently experiencing. In fact, recent employment data shows that internship programs serve as strong pipeline of talent for entry-level roles, with 75.5% of interns from 2020-21 returning to work at their company full-time. Plus, interns are more likely than non-interns to stick around, saving you in recruiting and onboarding costs. The data shows that the 1-year retention rate for interns turned full-timers is nearly 70%, compared to 36% of non-interns, and the 5-year retention rate for interns turned full-timers is nearly 41.5%, compared to 26% of non-interns. But how do you take a step back and source your new cohort of interns in a cost-effective way, as well? Try incorporating some of these strategies below into your next recruitment cycle.
50 Talent Professionals Share Why They Love Working in Early Career Recruitment
‘Tis the season — to recognize hard-working talent acquisition professionals and early career recruiters! That’s why RippleMatch has deemed this time of year ‘Talent Appreciation Season’, and is excited to celebrate those in the field that play an integral role in their organizations, and make a huge difference in students’ lives.
How to Navigate Early Career Hiring in a Recession
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, talent teams experienced a hot market with candidates in the drivers’ seat — one so competitive that it had been referred to as ‘the war on talent’. But an economic cooldown at the tail end of 2022 has shifted companies’ focus from fighting for top talent to planning for worst-case scenarios by tightening budgets and instituting hiring freezes and layoffs.
5 Ways to Foster an Inclusive, Multi-Generational Workplace
Currently, there is a grand total of five generations in the workforce — with Millennials making up the majority of the current workforce, and members of Gen X holding 51% of leadership roles. By 2025, Gen Z will comprise nearly 30% of the workforce. In order to have a harmonious work environment, it is essential that talent leaders make a conscious effort to create a workplace that is inclusive of workers of all ages.
Representation Matters to Gen Zers Looking for Work
Generation Z has been vocal about the need for organizations to do better regarding diversity and inclusion. As the most diverse generation in U.S. history, they're often the ones who are on the front lines of the fight for social justice, and it is evident that the workplace is no exception.
The Biggest Branding Challenges Companies Are Facing Today
Most companies are aware that building a strong employer brand is critical for educating potential employees on what their organization does and values, and for existing employees who are helping to shape the community they have built and are looking to grow. But as we’ve shifted from a hot market to one marked by economic uncertainty and tightening budgets, organizations today are questioning whether it's the right time to amplify their branding efforts, or pull back on related expenses.
Candidates’ Attitudes Toward Reneges Remain Unchanged Despite Economic Cooldown
Despite moving away from the candidate-driven market we experienced in 2021 and early 2022, candidates today are unwavering in their liberal attitude toward reneges. In fact, some may be even more likely to rescind their offers this year.
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