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So You’re Building an Early Career Program. A Virtual Learning Series for Establishing Your Campus Recruiting Program & Strategy

Foundations: The Pillars to a Strong Early Career Program

So You’re Building an Early Career Program. A Virtual Learning Series for Establishing Your Campus Recruiting Program & Strategy

Community Newsletter – November 2022

Check out the latest issue below and don’t forget to subscribe.

Talent Acquisition Professional Compensation Survey

Get insights into the current state of compensation for talent acquisition professionals

The Craft of Recruiting with Paula Judge, VP Talent at Accel Gradience Podcast

In this episode of The Gradience Podcast, guest host, Brian Bocchino, is joined by Paula Judge, VP of Talent at Accel.

Sustaining Buy-In for Your Early Talent Programs

Trying to convince your CHRO or VP of Talent to continue supporting your early talent program, regardless of COVID or recession? Watch this URx Roundtable session to learn just that from experienced leaders – Richard Cho, Chief Recruiting Officer at Gem, and Emil Yeargin, VP of Talent at Gusto.

Driving Efficiency to Maximize your Fall Recruiting Outcomes

Watch this discussion with TA leaders from Squarespace and Visa who will share their perspectives on operating with lean teams and how they are able to succeed, be creative, and build careers for today’s early talent.

Designing an Effective Keep Warm Strategy

Keeping in touch with your early-career candidates doesn’t have to be overwhelming: with the right technology and a focused strategy, you can ensure your candidates have the best possible experience with your organization.

Community Newsletter – October 2022

Check out the latest issue below and don’t forget to subscribe.

Supporting Your Recruiting Team Through Layoffs

Running a recruiting team or function is hard. It can be really challenging when your company is growing at a breakneck speed, but is even more so when hiring slows or even stops altogether and you find that your recruiting team doesn’t map to the new hiring plan.

Adapting Your Recruitment Practices to Succeed in a Changing Financial Climate

In 2022, companies and recruiters are facing challenges in the financial macro environment just as they head into the fall recruitment season. How can you and your team creatively adapt to these changes (which could be affecting headcount, budget, team bandwidth, and more), and get ahead of the game?

Internship Extension Requests Policy

If you run an internship program you likely have received a request to extend the end date for an intern. This Doc is an outline and template on how to manage those requests.

4 Keys to Successful Intern Conversions

Scholars co-founder Parker Pell recently sat down with Jennifer Newbill of Dell Technologies and Kathy Schaum of KPMG to speak about recent shifts seen in their intern-to-full time conversion rates. Here are 4 tips for impacting and improving your intern-FTE rate to ensure a top-tier candidate experience.

The Key to Hiring Great Executives in Early Stage Companies with Chandan Lodha, Co-founder of CoinTracker

In this episode of The Gradience Podcast, Nigel is joined by Chandan Lodha, Co-founder of CoinTracker.

The Impact of First Hires on Seed Stage Companies

In this episode of The Gradience Podcast, Nigel is joined by Matt Birnbaum, Talent Partner at Pear VC.

Use an economic downturn to raise retention, nurture skills, and reduce expenditure.

Economic downturns create opportunities to innovate. Here’s how talent teams can use this time to drive change that will set up their team, and organization, for success.

5 strategies to Build a Pipeline of Diverse New Grad Talent

With university recruiting season upon us, many organizations are looking for better ways to build a pipeline of diverse technical talent. We’ve put together our top five tips for creating a process that allows you to expand your reach to more non-traditional candidates and reduce bias, without compromising time-to-hire or creating a bottleneck.

Prioritizing Culture with Riley Ennis, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Freenome

In this episode of The Gradience Podcast, Nigel is joined by Riley Ennis, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Freenome. Many founders speak to specific actions that enabled the growth of their companies in their respective industries. Some tips might apply in all sectors, while others are specific to certain industries. Here, Riley Ennis of Freenome shares actionable steps that have worked for him in healthcare.

The Recruiter’s Journey with Gia Scinto, Partner at Launch Search Partners / Expert at Y Combinator

In this episode of The Gradience Podcast, Nigel is joined by Gia Scinto, Partner at Launch Search Partners and Growth Advisor/Expert at Y Combinator.

Diversity 102: The Next Step in the Conversation

You’ve laid the foundation, you’re committed to ambitious goals, now what? Join this panel for conversions that are focused on diversity, equity and belonging as our panelists reflect on what events have proved to deliver the best ROI? Who are the best partners within and outside your organization? Learn about how best to leverage tools & platforms and what metrics to track.

Effectiveness of the “Rooney Rule” in Tech Recruiting

From the OneReq Summit: DEI In Recruiting. A look at the Rooney Rules implementation in Tech Recruiting. Featuring Adam Ward, Partner, Growth by Design Talent | Mawulom Nenonene, Talent Consultant, LTSE

Building an Organic Culture with Jordan Fisher, Founder & CEO of Standard AI

In this episode of The Gradience Podcast, Nigel is joined by Jordan Fisher, Founder and CEO of Standard AI. If you’re interested in getting team building tips from a successful founder, want a peek into being a founder in an unexplored niche, want to learn how to create an organic culture for your team, interested in knowing what it’s like to be a founder in an unfamiliar industry, want to build a cross-functional team and a team with the right atmosphere, tune in to this episode of The Gradience Podcast, a Podcast by Build Talent.

Direct Reports on an Interview Panel

Asking direct reports to interview their potential new leader. We’ve seen a few flavors of this and generally disagree with the approach. While sometimes founders have no other choice, we’ll cover the pros and cons of this method and why we advise against it.

How to Future-Proof Your Internship Program

In this keynote session, Ahva Sadeghi, CEO and co-founder of URx22 title sponsor Symba, sits down with panelists to discuss he future hold for internship programs.

Expanding Early Talent: Building Career Transition Programs

Discussion around expansion of Apprenticeship, Associateship and Fellowship programs to increase representation, provide opportunities for career transition-ers (i.e. coding bootcamps, non-traditional backgrounds), and amplitude internal mobility.

Why Gen Z Candidates Rescind Their Offers and What Recruiters Can Do About It

In this session, RippleMatch will share new data on why candidates accept and rescind offers, and will talk with UR leaders Rebecca Roa (Yext), Becky Gavin (Bose), and Julie Montrose (Chainalysis) on how they’re grappling with and combating the emergence of reneged offers.

Solving the Skills Gap for Early Career Talent

Hear from Tom Brunskill, CEO at Forage, and Nana-Gyasi Kessie, law clerk at White & Case, about preskilling, how it impacts employers and students, and how talent teams can incorporate it into their strategies.

Diversity 102 – The next step in conversation

You’ve laid the foundation, you’re committed to ambitious goals, now what? Join this panel for conversions that are focused on diversity, equity and belonging as our panelists reflect on what events have proved to deliver the best ROI? Hear about best partners within your organization as well as those externally.and learn about how best to leverage tools & platforms and what metrics to track.

Mamba Mentality: Building your Professional Brand

Shantra Laye, University Recruiting Manager, helps you understand how to assess and hone your professional brand as a TA professional, regardless of where you are in your career journey.

Navigating Headcount to Managing Reneges (Duolingo, General Mills, Autodesk, Dropbox)

So much goes into preparing and executing a hiring strategy. From headcount planning, to benchmarking strategies, to converting those amazing interns so what are all the pieces you need to consider? Hear this panel’s experience and expertise on how they approached creating their hiring strategy.

Navigating Headcount to Managing Reneges with Adobe, Starbucks, LPL Financial, Gusto

Navigating Headcount to Managing Reneges (Verkada, Cockroach Labs, Plaid, Veritas, BitGo)

Navigating Headcount to Managing Reneges with eBay, 1Password, Perpetua, Dolby

From Student to Superstar: Perspectives on How to Find Your Next Great Technical Hire

In this URx Conference 2022 featured discussion, we bring together perspectives from a Dean of a College of Engineering, recruiter, and engineering manager to share insights on how the broader hiring team can improve their process.

Apprenticeships – A Pathway for Non-Traditional Talent

Talent comes in all shapes and forms, but as companies expand their early talent programs, how can companies leverage candidates that follow non-traditional paths? Join our Apprenticeships discussion to learn how our panelists have sourced, hired, and leveraged these programs to bring talent into their organizations.

Continuing the Conversation with HBCU Partners

Talking with our HBCU partners brings so much insight! So join Deitrick and Lavonya as they continue the conversation from last years URx Leaders Summit around HBCU’s, partnerships, and their perspective on early career talent.

Growing Early Talent Pool

From the 2022 URx Conference – Forward Together. A panel discussion digging into the challenges and opportunities of companies, higher education, and nonprofits working together to grow the pool of diverse talent.

Into the Talent Industry with Jose Guardado & Brian Bocchino, Co-Founders at Build Talent

In this episode of The Gradience Podcast, Nigel is joined by Jose Guardado & Brian Bocchino, Co-Founders at Build Talent a recruiting practice that serves hyper growth companies.

Landing a Career in UR

Thinking about joining the amazing community of early career recruiters & program managers? How could you not? With a diversity of skill sets needed to execute a successful recruiting program, let’s talk about the transferable skills you can bring over. Hear from those that have successfully made the transition and excelled in their respective roles since.

Spreading Your Wings: Transitioning Out of UR

The pathway to move up or gain different experiences within UR is clear but what about those of us interested in leveraging our skill sets in other arenas? Emerging Talent & University Recruiting requires a diverse skill set – from deep technical knowledge, to recruiting experience, to program management, and even people management. Armed with this diverse slate of knowledge, where have former recruiters, program managers, and leads taken their career? Hear interesting stories from engineers, program managers, directors who all started where you are today. If you are looking to transition to a new career or if this sparks your curiosity, check out our panel on transitioning out of UR.

Identifying Potential in Top Talent Early

Early career recruiting centers around investment and as the search for talent becomes even more competitive, how can companies identify potential in first-year and second-year candidates? Would the purpose of the internship program change? What do you look for on a resume in the absence of academic and professional experience? How do you assess ROI when there could be a long return on that investment? We are excited to see Early ID programs popping up more and more and are excited to dedicate a session exclusively on designing and identifying that talent early.

Planning for the Future: How to Build Lasting Programs

Before you arrive on campus, there are so many aspects that need thoughtful consideration. This is where our incredible program managers activate. Whether you are building a program from the ground up or leveling up your existing program, our panelists bring a variety of experience to share – from tips on setting up resources, obtaining buy-in, and designing a mentorship program to ensure long term success. Join our panel to talk all things program.

Set up to Scale: When, Why, and How to Grow Your Internship Program

Are you thinking about growing your internship program? For many early career talent leaders, scaling internships is a key initiative and area of focus. As your organization grows and demand for talent accelerates, early career programs are essential to building a healthy talent pipeline. But not every program should and is ready to scale.

The Student’s Perspective

As recruiters we plan, strategize, and ideate on what will catch students attention, but why not hear directly from them. Our students bring so much insight and we are thrilled to have Dr. Kristen Austin
Director of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Access, Rewriting the Code leading the conversation and answering your questions.

Building Executive Buy-in and Champions for Intern and Emerging Talent Hiring

How Sprinklr built and sold their internship and new-in-career programs to executive leadership, getting buy-in to hire 25 interns in our first year and 50 interns and 100+ new-in-career roles in year 2. Learn how executive engagement helped Sprinklr interns leave the summer excited and thrilled with their time at Sprinklr.

How to Handle the 1st Recruiting Call with an Executive Candidate

First impressions go a long way. We can all recall a good or bad first impression someone made. It’s hard to build trust and conviction when recruiting someone if you aren’t able to make a positive impression the first time you speak with them.

Technical Recruiting with Daniel Chen, Multi-time Founder & Visiting Fellow at Sequoia Capital

In this episode of The Gradience Podcast, Nigel is joined by Daniel Chen, Multi-time Founder & Visiting Fellow at Sequoia Capital.

Keys to Strong Partnerships between Recruiting and Engineering Leadership

From the OneReq Summit: DEI In Recruiting. A deep dive into the critical partnership between Engineering & Recruiting. Featuring Mamuna Oladipo, VP of Product, Shopify | Tigran Sloyan, Co-Founder & CEO, CodeSignal

Processing Bias One Stage At Time

From the OneReq Summit: DEI In Recruiting. A deep dive into mitigating bias at every stage of the of the recruiting process. Featuring Flo Thinh Chialtas, Talent Partner, DCVC | Yoni Lateiner, Head of Talent, NerdWallet.

Enabling Recruiters and Recruiting Teams by Illuminating the Threads of Connection and Wellbeing

From the OneReq Summit: DEI In Recruiting. A unique take on enabling recruiters and recruiting teams. Featuring Rajiv Mehta, Founder & CEO, Atlas of Care | Lexi Butler, Founder, Sista Circle: Black Women in Tech

Raising the Hiring Bar with Brent Goldman, Engineering Leader and Angel Investor

In this episode of The Gradience Podcast, Nigel is joined by Brent Goldman, former VP & Head of Engineering at Sisu.

The Importance of Representation on Recruiting Teams

From the OneReq Summit: DEI In Recruiting. A conversation on working with strategic communities featuring Elizabeth Ames, CEO WomenPM & Alison Medina Founder & CEO Tech Ladies moderated by Lexi Butler Founder of Sista Circles.

Building Inclusion into Recruiting Teams

From the OneReq Summit: DEI In Recruiting. A conversation on how leaders can model a companies DEI goals from within the recruiting team featuring Jose Cong, Head of Talent Humane & Katrina Jones Founder Advancing Equity + Inclusion moderated by Wahab Owolabi Founder of OneReq.

Unconscious Bias: Starting with YOU the Recruiter

From the OneReq Summit: DEI In Recruiting. A conversation on confronting your own unconcious bias as a recruiter featuring Sean Page, Senior Recruiter Propel & Jose Guardado, Founder & Principle Build Talent moderated by Wahab Owolabi Founder of OneReq.

Overcoming Barriers to Reaching Diverse Recruiting Talent & Maintaining Support for Inclusion

From the OneReq Summit: Diversity in Recruiting. A conversation on creating a culture that attracts diversity & cultivates inclusion on your recruiting team featuring Maurice Wilkens, Head of DEI Twitch & Katrina Jones Founder & CEO Advancing Equity + Inclusion moderated by Tricia Sitimere CTRL Alt Delete.

Bridging the Disconnect Between Employers and Early Talent

Early talent, employers, and educators are left disconnected by the ill-configured education-to-workforce pipeline. A study of nearly 10,000 participants finds the 4 sources of these disconnects, and 3 ways employers can rectify them.

Community Newsletter – April 2022

Check out the latest issue below and don’t forget to subscribe.

The art of recruitment with Tammy Han, Head of Talent at Emergence Capital

In this episode of The Gradience Podcast, Nigel is joined by Tammy Han, Head of Talent at Emergence Capital.

Best Practices for a High Converting Internship Program

Watch this URx Roundtable hosted in partnership with Symba on Best practices for a high converting internship program.

How to solve the growing skills gap

What if employers could flip the script and adopt a train-then-hire model that enabled them to foster their own ‘supply’ of skilled early talent?

Acquiring your dream team with Evan Walden, Co-Founder & CEO of Getro

In this episode of The Gradience Podcast, Nigel is joined by Evan Walden, Co-Founder & CEO of Getro.

Hiring your tribe with Adrien Treuille, Co-Founder & CEO of Streamlit

In this episode of The Gradience Podcast, Nigel is joined by Adrien Treuille, Co-Founder & CEO of Streamlit.

5 Strategies for Running a Successful DE&I Recruiting Initiative

Asana’s apprenticeship program provides opportunities to technical candidates from nontraditional and underrepresented backgrounds. And, it works—AsanaUP has a success rate of 82% when it comes to converting apprentices to full-time software engineering roles. Read what advice they have to offer other talent leaders looking to run a successful DE&I recruiting initiative.

Referral Program Guide

Referrals can be a recruiting team’s best friend and arch nemesis. Check out this template for driving a referral program.

Building Teams and Strategies for Long-Term Success

The Featured Keynote at the 2021 URx Leaders Summit. RippleMatch CEO Andrew Myers sits down with four leaders crafting the future of their programs. Featuring leaders from eBay, Anheuser Busch, and Chewy.

Creating a Better Early Career Technical Recruiting Process

From the leaders track of the 2021 URx Leaders Summit. CodeSignal’s CEO Tigran Sloyan leads a conversation with three expert early career recruiters, Cindy Loggins, Nadia Abouzaid, as they discuss how you can create a process that meets today’s changing requirements, builds connections with potential applicants, and surfaces the candidates with the most promising skills–rather than “top tier school” credentials.

Key Learnings from Past Internship Programs to Make Effective Changes and Improvements

Symba Co-Founder Ahva Sadeghi leads a conversation on internship program design featuring panelists from Waymo and Robinhood. Learn how you can unravel key learnings from your past year’s program to make effective changes and improvements for a successful new internship season.

Strategies and Roadblocks to Winning Over Next-Gen Talent

From the 2021 URx Leaders Summit Leaders Track. Kate Beckman, Exec. Manager of Community & Insights at RippleMatch leads a conversation with Elizabeth Diley, Campus Talent Acquisition Leader at General Mills, and Monique Aristy, Global Head of University Recruiting at Confluent for on how to attract and retain Gen Z talent.

Building a World Class University Recruiting Team

From the 2021 URx Leaders Summit Leaders Track. Char Delapena leads a conversation on building a work class team. Featuring Grace Williams (Palo Alto Networks), Jenn Gustin (AppHarvest), Larrishia Stanley (Gilead Sciences), William Chichester (Peloton).

Taking the Extra Step: Leveling Up Your Program

From the Program Managers & Leads Track of the 2021 URx Leaders Summit. A discussion on taking your University & Early Career Recruiting program to the next level featuring Alyssa Saviage (Adobe), Lindsay Hickok (Box), Jeanie Arciaga (Roblox), Nuray Molla (Tesla)

In Conversation with HBCUs

A wide ranging conversation from the 2021 URx Leaders Summit on all things related to recruiting at HBCUs with Leonelle Thompson (Langston University), Melissa Knight (Howard University) and Lavonya Jones (Morehouse College). Moderated by OneReq Founder Wahab Owolabi.

So You’re Going Global, Now What?

From the URx Leaders Summit 2021 Leaders Track. This conversation centers the global expansion of your recruiting program.

Leveraging Your Resources to Create a Diversity Equity & Inclusion Strategy

From the URx Leaders Summit 2021 Managers Track.

Team, Program & Strategy, OH MY! – Experiences as a First-Time Manager at a Large Company

From the URx Leaders Summit 2021 Managers Track. A lot goes into managing a UR team, add being a first time manager on top of that and it can become overwhelming. Join this conversation to gain some tips and insights on how to get through those first experiences at a large company.

Team, Program & Strategy, OH MY! – Experiences as a First-Time Manager at a Small Company

Making DEI a Priority on Your Team

From the Leads track of URx Leaders Summit 2021. Join a conversation centering on making diversity equity and inclusion a priority on your team.

Weaving DEI into Every Piece of the Puzzle

From the Program Managers & Leads track of URx Leaders Summit 2021. A discussion featuring managers from MongoDB, Smartsheet, and Workday on how they ensure DEI is at a core of all they do.

Extending the Hiring Bar

Corporations are holding themselves under a DEI microscope looking to diagnose issues and create change within their organizations. The attention typically starts with recruiting, where we need to rethink the way we approach hiring bars if we are to drive any meaningful change.

Ideas and Tips for Closing Early Career Candidates

As we enter the peak of fall recruitment season, early career recruiters are pivoting from focusing on initial engagement to forming their strategy around hiring and retention. With internship and entry level hires, there are often several months between a candidate’s offer and their start date. There are also other circumstantial factors that affect early career hires, including inexperience with the hiring process, relocation needs, competing offers, and much more.

URx Recruiter Roundtable: Understanding Program Success Post-Internship

The Q3 2021 URx University Recruiter Roundtable was co-hosted with our partners at Symba. Check out the key takeaways from the panels and breakout discussions on how teams track and measure success of their interns and intern programs.

OneReq Summit: DEI in Recruiting

OneReq Summit: DEI in Recruiting is an event series that brings together Talent leaders and recruiting teams to address the most common barriers to DEI. Through impact-oriented keynotes and panels, you’ll learn best practices for reaching beyond boundaries to develop your recruiting team’s DEI competencies.

How to Build Community and Engagement Among Your Summer Interns

Whether your internship program is in-person, remote, or hybrid, building community among your interns can be challenging. That’s why we’ve joined forces with our partner RippleMatch to provide you with data-backed tips and best practices for fostering intern engagement.

2021 URx Award Winners

The inaugural URx Awards to recognize outstanding members of the emerging talent community was launched at URx Conference 2021. Here are the amazing winners who were nominated and selected by their peers and the students they served.

Beyond the Events: Running a Successful Structured Intern Program

Events are a big part of Intern and New Grad programs, but there’s a lot more that makes a program successful – especially in the time of Covid! Join a panel to learn about different approaches to structured programs, including things like evaluations, partnership with managers, and conversion offers.

Solving Pain Points of the Recruitment Process that impact Candidate Experience

Join Jehron Petty (Founder & CEO of ColorStack, Cornell CS graduate) and Connie Huff (University Recruiter at McKesson) for a conversation centered around what students hate most about the recruiting process — and a live brainstorm session on ways to improve candidate satisfaction.

Building a Virtual Internship Program

Covid-19 created an unprecedented situation around the globe that forced many individuals to abruptly transition from a traditional office environment into a completely virtual and distributed system. Hear from the Splunk team on how they transitioned to hosting a fully virtual internship program.

Recruiting The COVID-Era Young Professional

How Top Employers are Recruiting and Retaining – The Next Generation of Talent. Watch URx21 Sponsor, RippleMatch, lead an Interactive session on how the past year, COVID-19 has changed what students are looking for in their first jobs and internships.

Scholarships – Encouraging Students from Underrepresented Communities to Consider Careers in your Industry

Learn more about how the Charles Schwab Foundation partnered with seven universities across the US to help increase underrepresented groups in Financial Planning.

Virtual Fall OCRs…Again

Virtual info sessions, career fairs, workshops and interviews. Hear from Hubspot, KraftHeinz, Lyft and Robinhood on how they managed virtual OCRs in 2020 and what they have planned for fall 2021.

Preparing Your Interns and New Grads for Day 1 in a Virtual World

Introducing interns to their managers & mentors, scheduling meet & greets with the class and building onboarding plans. Hear from Bose, Workday, Zynga and Ankura on how they prepared their interns and new grads for Day 1 virtually.

Building Talent Pipelines for Women of Color

Did you know only 7% of organizations have targeted efforts that focus on gender and race? Forward thinking organizations have an opportunity to be intentional in building the diversity pipeline by focusing on the intersectional experience. In this engaging program, Chelsea C. Williams, Founder & CEO of College Code, will support talent practitioners in building the talent pipeline for women of color through conscious candidate attraction, sourcing & selection.

Coming Back to the Nest: Successful Alumni Engagement Drives Career Outcomes

Engaging alumni virtually or in-person is a win for colleges in its own right. But engaging alumni to build recruiting opportunities and empower student success is an even bigger victory.

Gen Z Talent and Remote Work – What Waterloo’s data is telling us

Join this session to hear the latest insights about how Gen Z has adapted to learning and working remotely during the pandemic. We will also share new data collected from students who worked for US organizations, highlighting trends related to recruitment, onboarding and overall student experience. Plus, hear directly from Waterloo co-op students about their remote work experiences.

Cultural Competence in Computing: A case study on a systemic approach to addressing tech diversity

A case study on a systemic approach to addressing tech diversity issues. Join us as we learn more about Duke University’s new Cultural Competence in Computing (3C) professional development program.

Fireside Chat with April Curley

In a live conversation at URx Conference 2021 we discussed;

📍 April’s experience as a POC university recruiting professional focused on diversity recruiting.

💡 April’s perspective on diversity & HBCU recruiting strategy.

🌟 Whats next for April!

Building an Apprenticeship Program

Thinking of building an Apprenticeship Program? Hear from Airbnb, Blend, Novo Nordisk, Oscar Health and Robinhood as to how they built their programs.

Navigating Clubhouse – Technical Recruiters Edition

What is the new hype of recruitment on Clubhouse (CH)? Jobseekers and recruiters describe CH as the never ending career fair. Since there are many new and untapped capabilities that employers can explore on CH, your recruitment team can be a pioneer on the audio-based beta app. By joining the workshop, you will learn from how recruiters are currently navigating CH and actionable takeaways on how you can recruit prospective candidates!

Building a Diverse Workforce through Early Talent ID

Have you thought about building an early-ID program for freshman / sophomores but not sure where to start? Join the early talent team at IBM to hear how they successfully created a diversity focused early talent identification program, IBM Accelerate, from the ground-up. This session will focus on best practices when designing a new program, lessons learned and the importance of developing future talent early.

Recruiting the Rainbow

URx Conference 2021: Sourcing diverse talent is a challenge. LGBTQ+ talent is no exception. In many cases it can be more difficult to find these candidates due to stigma, fear and a lack of resources. In this presentation we will cover the best approaches to locating and utilizing LGBTQ+ talent pools to pull from a diverse group with intersectionality across race, gender identity, veteran status, age and more.

High-Performing Lean UR Teams – Mid-Size to Large Companies

Interviews, on-campus recruiting, onboarding, intern program events, mid-point check-ins, oh my! Hear from Autodesk, CrowdStrike, General Dynamics and MongoDB on how they’ve managed it all with a lean UR team.

How to Innovate Campus Recruiting in the Brave New World

In this session, Tom Brunskill, CEO of Forage, will highlight the most innovative approaches to discovering early talent that Forage partners do very differently, so different that they were able to survive and thrive in 2020. Join this session to learn how you too can thwart disruption and ride the wave of transformation into the brave new world of early talent.

Programmatic Engineer Hiring – Doing More with Less

Moving from a reactive recruiting model to proactive during COVID-19 and unprecedented times for entry level Engineer roles. How to take a programmatic approach to creating a diverse candidate flow for hard to hire roles and backfilling attrition prior to having vacancies on a very low budget.

How Peloton Ensures Their Hiring Process is Fair

This session focuses on Peloton’s approach to DEI, and how they create a consistent hiring bar and establish a more inclusive candidate hiring process. We’ll discuss their top data points that help candidates build confidence in the company, why these data points are important, and examine fairness in assessments in more detail.

URx21: Student Panel featuring ColorStack and Rewriting the Code

A staple at every URx Conference, gain insights directly from the students you recruit.

How we created an Inclusive Environment for our New Hires

Wanting to make sure you create an environment where your new hires feel supported and a sense of belonging? Hear from Revantage, Chevron, Twitter and USAA on how they’ve built an inclusive environment for their new hires.

Fostering the Intern & New Grad Community

Are you onboarding interns and new grads remotely this year? Hear from Symba, Datadog, Duolingo, Gusto and Shopify on how they’ve fostered the intern and new grad community.

Overcoming Bias and Early Career Recruitment and Hiring

For too long, organizations relied on target schools and employed strategies or traditional recruiting policies that left too many candidates out.

Designing Batch Interview Days for Intern Hiring

The session will provide specific details, preparation, execution, and outcome summary of “sell/batch” interview day(s) that Zwift created to efficiently hire our Summer Zwifterns (Interns) into a 12-week program.

Lessons Learned from 2020: Startups to Mid-Size Companies

2020 was unprecedented for us all – learning new ways to recruit, engage, interview and onboard. Hear from Roblox, Credera, Echo Global Logistics and Pure Storage on lessons they learned from 2020.

Lessons Learned from 2020: Large Companies

2020 was unprecedented for us all – learning new ways to recruit, engage, interview and onboard. Hear from Paypal, Adobe, eBay and Nordstrom on lessons they learned from 2020.

Creating an Engaging and Scalable Virtual Candidate Experience

2020 was a year of trial by (dumpster) fire. At Duolingo, we were forced to rethink how we engage with candidates in this new fully remote world. In a year full of chaos, we were determined to make Duolingo a bright moment in our candidates’ 2020 journey So, what did we do to make this a reality? We’ll be sharing our insights on how to create a high-touch candidate experience from application to offer in a fully remote environment.

High-Performing Lean UR Teams – Startups to Mid-Size Companies

Interviews, on-campus recruiting, onboarding, intern program events, mid-point check-ins, oh my! Hear from Gusto, Roku, Quora and Zynga on how they’ve managed it all with a lean UR team.

What to Expect at URx Conference 2021

URx Forward is more than just a conference. It is a time for our community to come together. Here is what to expect at #URx21.

URx Forward 2021 Opening Keynote: Fireside Chat with April Curley

We are beyond excited to announce that our opening keynote at URx Forward 2021 will be a Fireside chat with Diversity Specialist, Educator, and former Google Recruiter April Curley.

URx Year 5 (Part 2)

Creating a New System for University and Early Career Recruiting. In part 1, I talked about the changing role of UR Leaders and teams and what that means for the current system as the early career recruiting industry continues to evolve. Now let’s focus on the system.

URx Year 5

Blurred Lines between University Recruiting & Diversity Recruiting. The line between diversity recruiting and university recruiting in the tech industry is blurring. There is an increased focus on recruiting early career talent as a means to bring more diversity to the industry.

Remote Internship Program – Contingency Plan Template

Pivoting your internship program from in person to remote? Use this contingency doc template to organize your team’s plans.

RippleMatch joins OneReq as a Community Partner

RippleMatch joins the URx community as a partner to share data-backed insights on the COVID-Era Campus Recruiting Landscape.

Building Relationships and Creating Cross-Functional Partnerships as a UR Leader

Building strong xfn relationships internal is key to success as a UR Leader. Watch this session featuring UR Leaders at Netflix, Twitch and Paylocity on the topic.

4 Key Steps to Building Your First Recruiting Analytics Dashboard

A recap of the key steps and a few resources to help you get started with your first recruiting analytics dashboard.

Recap: Q1 URx Community Call

We hosted the first Community Call of 2021 for URx (University Recruiting). We had over 100 members join! Below are a few discussion highlights and

URx Q4 University Recruiting Benchmarking Survey

Our Q4 University Recruiting Industry Benchmarking Survey is live. It covers the Fall season and the industry outlook for 2021.

Accelerating Change: Lessons learned from the first wave of virtual recruitment

Cappfinity Co-founder, Nicky Garcea and Author, Lindsey Pollak is joined by Jada Green of Accenture for a keynote presentation at URx Leaders Summit 2020 reflecting on the digital transformation that has taken place over the last six months.

Diversifying Pathways: 2021 Recruiting

Shanice Smith is a college student studying Emerging Media Technology at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Last Tuesday I had the opportunity to

Crafting a Blueprint for the Future as UR Leaders

UR Leaders from CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks share their thoughts around creating a roadmap in a role with ever changing priorities.

There’s No ‘I’ in Team: Building and Scaling with a Team of One

In this discussion, we will share best practices about maximizing time and impact for a 1-person team to build the foundation for University Programs or new program initiatives.

Leading Effective Teams with UR Leaders from USAA, Plaid, and Twitch

2020 :: The Student Perspective

Keeping touch with the perspective of our candidates, in this case students is fundamental to making sound strategic & process decisions. Watch this session to stay in touch with the reality of those our decisions impact.

Enabling Change – How Do Talent Leaders Overcome the Barries to Reaching and Engaging More Diverse Talent

Nicky Garcea(Cappfinity) & Author Lindsey Pollak

Designing a Winning Remote Internship Experience

Lessons & Stories from Symba Cofounders as well as UR Leaders at Robinhood, CBS Interactive, and MGM International Resorts

Early ID Programs for Sophomores

Early ID is more than a program, it’s a mindset. Join this session to hear about leveraging early ID programs to attract and secure talent as early as sophomore year.

Making the most of the URx Global Leaders Summit

3 quick tips to make the most of attending the URx Global Leaders Summit presented by Cappfinity.

URx Global Leaders Summit Keynote

Kelly Garcea, Co-Founder of Cappfinity & New York Times best selling author Lindsey Pollak will keynote the inaugural URx Global Leaders Summit sponsored by Cappfinity.

Shopify’s Life Story Interview: Discovering Potential in Early Talent

Whether someone was a valedictorian or a high school drop-out, there is a broad spectrum of life experiences that candidates have grown through that can show our interviewers whether someone is the right match for Shopify.

Batch Week Technical Interviewing In University Recruiting

One of the many joys of University Recruiting season is a big uptick in interview volume. This can lead to burnout amongst the engineers conducting the interviews, and we know cranky engineers make for bad candidate experiences! Using a batch week process can be a solution to interview overload.

Key Takeaways from our Benchmarking Report

As we head into the fall recruiting season, the URx Team decided to create a survey that would benchmark university recruiting programs, fall recruiting strategies, and intern & new grad compensation. Here’s some of the key takeaways from the data we collected in the survey.

Update: Our efforts supporting underrepresented talent impacted by the pandemic

Students, specifically those from underrepresented backgrounds have been facing uncertainty around their career prospects due to the pandemic. When we saw this, we decided to take action, laying out a roadmap for helping them navigate the uncertainty and create opportunity for themselves. We’ve been heads down working to execute and honor that commitment. I’d like to take a moment to give an update.

3 Key Strategies to Drive Candidate Engagement at Virtual Conferences

With the majority of conferences going virtual this year, driving booth traffic and meaningful candidate interactions has become more challenging than ever. Here are a few ways from Renee Davis, University Recruiting Manager at Duolingo, recommends to maximize your presence and engagement at virtual conferences this year!

Navigating a Remote Summer Internship at Affirm

Melanie Shaver is a University Program Manager at Affirm, As an impact-driven leader, her career has been focused on leading teams to success, breaking down

Wrapping Up the Talent Development Program

Read to learn more about experiences of community leaders, students, and employers with the Talent Development Program, a series of workshops that provided students opportunities for professional development.

Community Spotlight: Bridget King

Continuing our Community Spotlights, we’re featuring Bridget King, a Talent Acquisition Manager, Early Professional Hiring at IBM and OneReq Community Engagement Lead.

Slack AMA with Jehron Petty

Catch up on our most recent Slack AMA and read highlights with Jehron Petty, CEO & Founder of ColorStack

Community Spotlight: Kimmy Lac

Introducing Community Spotlights, where we feature a member of our Talent Community! Today, we’re featuring our very own Social Media and Marketing Intern, Kimmy Lac.

Slack AMA with William Chichester

We caught up with William Chichester, Senior Manager, Global University Recruiting at Microsoft for another Slack AMA.

Slack AMA with Charlene (Char) Delapena

We’re back for another Slack AMA recap. Last week, the URx Team featured Charlene (Char) Delapena, our very own Executive Director here at URx and Head of University Recruiting at Robinhood.

InternHacks Student Stories

The impact of InternHacks exceeded our expectations. 170 students representing over 20+ colleges made beautiful and impactful projects and we’re so proud of them!

Affirm University – An Open Letter

This letter isn’t to provide advice on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to university recruiting – it’s to showcase some of Affirm’s initiatives during this crazy, but fulfilling, season!

Best Practices to Offboard Your Remote Interns

We recently caught up with our Community Partner Symba to discuss off-boarding all of our lovely remote summer interns!

AMA With Brittni Lundie

We hosted our very first Slack AMA with Brittni Lundie! Brittni is a Diversity and Inclusion Program Manager at Uber based in San Francisco where she manages diversity and inclusion programs on the university team.

Sourcing Business Reps for Campus Recruiting

Regardless of company, industry or role, students want to see people who they identify with in roles they are applying for or aspire to in your company.

OneReq Partners with Ten Thousand Coffees to Connect the Recruiter Community

Today we announce our partnership with Ten Thousand Coffees to strengthen the professional networking by smart-matching our recruiter community for virtual coffee or tea.

Employer Brand Strategy Overview

Learn how to build, execute, and scale a talent brand strategy. Included are tools that help building out an employer branding strategy.

New Recruiter On-boarding Template

An 30/60/90 goal based onboarding template for new recruiters.

Recruiting Leadership in Uncertain Times

To close out Day 1 of URx Forward 2020 we were joined by Jill Macri and Adam Ward of Growth By Design Talent. Watch the conversation about the role recruiting plays in leading companies through uncertain times.

Reflecting on URx Conference 2020

Motivational. Inspiring. Collaborative. These were a few of the goals we set out to accomplish when we decided to pivot our in-person conference to online.

Announcing InternHacks and URx Talent Development Program

There’s a saying in sports. “Go to where the puck is going to be, not where it is. The message is that if you go to where the puck is, when you get there it’s gone. We’re launching two programs to help students prepare today for opportunities tomorrow.

Quantifying your Program’s Value to the Business

Managing Interns Remotely

Michele Tse moderates a timely panel discussion featuring recruiters at HBO, MongoDB, and Twitch discussing managing interns remotely.

Building Connections for Companies & Students in a Virtual World

Watch this URx Forward 2020 session featuring 3 different student-focused organizations discussing how they’re building connections for companies & students in a virtual world.

Lessons learned supporting Underdog Students

The Wonsulting team has been helping thousands of students through career obstacles, whether it’s attending non-target schools, being from underrepresented groups, or having non-traditional backgrounds through Resume Revisions, LinkedIn Strategies, Interview Prep, and Job Opportunities.

Hiring The North

Thinking about hiring a Canadian, eh? Come to learn about the Canadian co-op landscape, how to navigate the campus process and how to build relationships with Universities

Recruiting at HBCUs : Fueling Your Underrepresented Talent Pipeline

Watch this conversation from URx Forward 2020 discussing strategies to effectively recruit and retain talent from Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), with a strong emphasis on developing an understanding of the HBCU landscape.

Its Going to be a virtual Summer

Watch this conversation from URx Forward 2020 on making the most out of your remote summer internship program.

Establishing Relationships with Top Talent in a Remote World

Hear from Justin Palmer, Founder & CEO of Topfunnel on how best to establish relationships with top talent in a remote world.

Leveraging your Data to Determine Target Schools

Kate Wright, discusses MongoDB’s journey in learning how to ask the right questions, identify salient data points, and make decisions on how to engage target schools.

How to Evolve Your Campus Recruiting Strategy

Learn how to kick start your campus program and how to iterate on your approach as you consider going virtual. COLLEEN GRANTManager, Global Campus Recruiting,

Innovative Opportunities for Employers to Engage on a Remote Campus

MATTHEW FRENCHAssistant Director, Employer Relations, University of North Carolina, CharlotteMIRIAM KARPILOWEmployer Relations, Career Services Center, University of San FranciscoNICOLE WRIGHTUniversity Recruiting Manager, GustoSTEPHANIE TYLERNational Director

Conducting Remote Interviews Successfully

Conducting Remote Interviews Successfully CAROLYNN CHOI, University Technical Recruiter, SquareINBAR GAM, University Recruiting Program Manager, DatabricksNURAY MOLLA, Sr. Recruiter, University Recruiting, TeslaPAUL BAUER, University Recruiter,

In Depth with the Head of Talent

Watch this panel from URx Forward 2020 featuring the Heads of Talent and Technical Recruiting at some of the worlds most innovative companies.

Creating A Culture of Inclusive Recruiting

Inclusive Recruiting is a culture that must be cultivated from RC to Head of Talent, watch a conversation between Kathy Gross, Director of Inclusion Recruiting

Quantifying Recruiting Program Value Template

Learn how to quantify your program’s value to business leaders.

URx partners with Symba to help companies design remote internship programs this summer

The Symba team has always been passionate about remote internships and helping organizations curate meaningful internship experiences. We are proud to welcome Symba into the URx Community as a preferred partner.

Announcing Referrals @ TalentBoard.io

The idea is simple, how fast can we get candidates directly in front of the recruiters. With TalentBoard, we can do so instantly.

Announcing URx Forward

Announcing URx Forward a live online event bringing together our community to be connected, inspired, and prepared for whatever the new realities of recruiting hold for us.

Resources for University Recruiting Teams In Response to COVID-19

Any successful recruiting program should have a balance of both in-person and virtual recruiting strategies.

Considerations For Launching A Remote Internship Program

Before you decide run a remote internship program, here are considerations to keep in mind.

Tips For Managing Remote Interns

Managing remote interns requires extra consideration to ensure the quality of the internship remains high

Health & Safety at URx20

The health and safety of everyone involved with URx20 is our number one priority. We have decided to cancel URx20, we will be hosting URx Forward, a live online event instead.

URx20 | Build Together

An opportunity to build a talent acquisition ecosystem that works for everyone, together.

My URx Experience | Tricia S.

I am so grateful to this community that has provided a space and a platform to help make me better in my day to day work. –

URx Year 4

We see a huge opportunity for more, deeper partnerships between companies and universities that support students at scale.

URx Conference 2019 Recap

A look back at an incredible experience at the 2019 URx Conference.

That’s a Wrap! URxNYC

URx Meetups bring together recruiters and talent developers for engaging discussions and networking. We hosted our first New York City meetup around a panel discussion on; Overcoming

URx19 Featured Speakers

The main stage at URx19 is anchoring an impressive programming lineup. We are excited to share the amazing sessions featuring leaders in the areas of early

That’s a Wrap! URxDFW

Two weeks ago we hosted our first URx Community Meetup bringing together recruiters and talent developers in the Dallas Fort Worth Area for a panel

Dr. Poppy Crum URx19 Keynote

Announcing our URx Conference 2019 keynote speaker; Dr. Poppy Crum, Chief Scientist Dolby Laboratories.

URx19 Speaker Selections Announced

We’re so excited to officially start the 3-month countdown to URx19! As the conference chair, it has been great working with other members of the

Reflecting on URx 2018

Looking back on an amazing second year and looking forward on to whats next.

URx 2017 Recap

URx 2017 was hosted at Lyft and took place May 2-3, 2017, in San Francisco. We wanted to create an opportunity for the UR community to come together, if only once a year, to network and discuss all things recruiting. What was initially planned as a 30 – 50 person event grew to over 200 people coming from as far out as Ontario, Canada. The first year was only possible with the help of many members of our university recruiting community.