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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:
  • 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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How to Prevent Candidates from Reneging After Accepting an Offer
RippleMatch
As the labor market heats up, some recruiters are experiencing an increase in candidates reneging on a job offer. Although this is a fairly common phenomenon—a 2019 survey from Robert Half found that 28% of professionals have backed out after accepting a job offer—reneging can be time-consuming and costly for employers. With this in mind, here are a few measures you can build into your recruitment process in order to minimize reneges from entry-level candidates.
Investing in the Future: How To Build Out an Early ID Strategy Without Overloading Your Team
RippleMatch
In today’s fast-moving campus recruitment landscape, it can sometimes be difficult to think beyond next month, let alone plan ahead a year or two. However, if you want to ensure that you have a continuous pipeline of top, diverse talent, it’s important that you invest in Early ID programs. But don’t worry. These programs don’t have to be overly complicated or take up too much of your time to be impactful.
How to Craft an Employer Brand that Speaks to What Early Career Candidates Value
RippleMatch
Building your employer brand is a critical part of engaging candidates and attracting top talent to your organization. How do you craft your employer brand to appeal to today’s young job seekers? By speaking to what they value in the workplace.
The Workforce of the Future: Emerging Trends That Are Here to Stay
RippleMatch
RippleMatch’s 2021 Fall User Conference was filled with information-packed sessions and workshops on the future of campus recruiting. The conference concluded with a Leadership Roundtable moderated by Andrew Myers, RippleMatch’s CEO and Founder. He was joined for the discussion by Cindy Loggins, the Director of Global University Recruiting and Programs at eBay, Bruce Soltys, AVP of Talent Acquisition Sourcing Strategies at Travelers, and Stephanie Turner, Campus Sourcing Leader, Talent Attraction and Acquisition at EY.
Balancing a School-Agnostic and Target-Schools Recruitment Strategy
RippleMatch
For many years, companies focused their early career recruiting efforts on a core set of target schools. Fall recruitment season would be filled with trips to campuses for endless career fairs and interviews. Almost all hiring for internships and entry-level positions came from the same schools, year after year.
RippleMatch Announces 20+ New ATS Integrations
RippleMatch
August 4, 2021 - Today, RippleMatch is excited to announce 20+ new ATS integrations, including Workday, Taleo, SmartRecruiters, and many more. These bi-directional integrations will help RippleMatch customers seamlessly transfer between their ATS and the RippleMatch platform, making it even easier to hire top talent & build diverse teams.
Meet the Winners of the 2021 Campus Recruiting Choice Awards
RippleMatch
After hundreds of nominations, a month of voting, and over 15,000 votes cast by the public, we’re proud to share the winners of the 2021 Campus Recruiting Choice Awards. These outstanding campus recruiting professionals come from companies across industries, reflect campus programs of all sizes, and represent a range of experience levels. Each one overcame the challenges of a tumultuous year to lead with empathy, innovate, and make their mark on the industry.
How RippleMatch Events Can Help You Engage With And Hire Your Ideal Candidates
RippleMatch
Recruitment events have traditionally been a great way to find and engage top candidates. However, they’re not without their challenges. At large career fairs, you may speak to hundreds of students in one day. It can be difficult to keep track of which ones stood out, and even more challenging to follow up with them afterwards. Self-hosted virtual events are a good way to target specific groups with hyper-relevant content, but marketing the events and getting RSVPs is easier said than done.
How Campus Recruiters Are Approaching the Fall 2021 Recruitment Season
RippleMatch
There’s no doubt about it. We’re in a better place this summer than last. We know how to use Zoom, are pros at hosting virtual events, and may even have a return-to-office plan all set. Compared to the chaos we faced in the summer of 2020, there’s a lot to be excited about as we plan for fall recruiting this year.
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