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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14 Professional Organizations to Partner With to Recruit Black Talent
As organizations continue to focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, many are seeking partnerships with professional organizations that represent and support candidates from different backgrounds, such as Black professionals. By partnering with these organizations, they can gain access to a diverse candidate pool, attend the recruitment events and job fairs that the group hosts both virtually and in-person, and sponsor events to demonstrate their commitment to D&I.
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.
3 Ways Talent Teams Can Supercharge Their D&I Efforts
While many organizations are taking steps toward diversifying their workforce and making the labor market more inclusive for all through formal and informal policies, there is still much more progress to be made to better support traditionally underrepresented talent. And as more members of Gen Z — the most diverse generation to date — continue to enter the workforce wanting to see themselves better represented at all levels of a company, the need to improve D&I policies will only continue to grow. In fact, we found that 75% of internship and job candidates would reconsider applying to a company if they were not satisfied with its D&I efforts.
7 Ways to Foster Strong Recruitment Relationships With HBCUs
As organizations continue to prioritize diversity in hiring, many are turning to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to reach more Black internship and job candidates. However, to successfully recruit future employees from HBCUs, you’ll need to employ different strategies than the ones you may be leaning on to reach students at Primarily White Institutions (PWIs). Specifically, you’ll need to focus more on building relationships with those schools and their students, and offering support to HBCUs.
The Future of Work — According to Gen Z
Generation Z is entering the workforce in troves, and bringing along with them new preferences for ideal work environments in which they can thrive and grow.
5 Obstacles Talent Leaders Are Facing Today
With the fall recruitment season just around the corner, RippleMatch recently hosted a weeklong customer conference titled Now & Next to see how talent leaders are balancing the recruiting demands of today with the challenges of the future. To conclude the weeklong event, we asked a panel of four talent leaders across different industries — Cindy Loggins, Head of Emerging Global Talent at eBay, Grace Williams, Director of Early Talent and Internal Mobility at Palo Alto Networks, Tracy Mendygral, Senior Recruiting Manager at McMaster-Carr, and Vicky Higaldo, Vice President and Senior Recruiting Manager - Early Talent National Lead at U.S. Bank — to talk about their short-term and long-term goals when it comes to early career candidates, as well as how they are tackling challenges head-on. These are some of the key obstacles they shared.
Companies Going the Extra Mile to Support LGBTQIA+ Employees
In recent years, many major companies have come forward in support of their LGBTQIA+ employees — which is crucial given that nearly half of LGBTQIA+ employees today reported that they experienced unfair treatment at work, and that the workplace is the second most common area where members of the LGBTQIA+ community experience discrimination (after ‘public spaces’). This Pride Month, we’re recognizing companies that are putting in the work to welcome LGBTQIA+ employees with open arms, and making the workplace a more inclusive place for all.
RippleMatch at NACE22: See You This June in Portland
RippleMatch is proud to be making its way to Portland this summer to participate in NACE22, the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ annual conference for college career services and corporate recruiting professionals. As sponsors of the conference, you’ll spot us everywhere from manning our booth in the Expo Hall, to taking the stage to present our latest benchmarking data on Gen Z. We are very excited to see you there!
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