From the 2025 URx Conference, panelists explore best practices for onboarding, training, and developing emerging talent, emphasizing the role of collaboration with government and community organizations to create impactful employment pathways.
At URx 2025, Liz Zulick, Senior Vice Chancellor for Education Innovation at Northeastern University, and Tom Brunskill, co-Founder at Forage, explore how employer partnerships and innovative experiential learning models are preparing students for the evolving workforce, bridging the gap between education and industry needs.
As AI reshapes the workforce, discover how universities are evolving to meet new talent demands. Hear from Northeastern’s Catherine Gill and CodeSignal’s Brenna Lenoir on aligning education, ethics, and access to build a more inclusive, AI-ready talent pipeline.
Watch Tigran Sloyan, CEO of CodeSignal deliver the keynote at the 2025 URx Conference.
From the 2025 URx Conference: Explore how to connect with overlooked CS talent from accessible colleges, with insights from ColorStack, Mentors in Tech, faculty, and employers.
From the 2025 URx Conference.
Learn more about the 2025 URx Award winners presented by RippleMatch.
Featuring TeamOhana a powerful platform that unifies people, processes, and data—giving Talent teams a single source of truth to execute headcount plans on time and within budget.
Insights from the 2024 URx Leaders Summit Intern Conversion Headcount Workshop. Read on for actionable strategies on advocating for new grad headcount.
Insights from the 2024 URx Leaders Summit Intern Conversion Headcount Workshop. Read on for actionable strategies on advocating for new grad headcount.
From the 2024 URx Leaders Summit. eBay’s Global Head of Emerging Talent in conversation with Kait Lange (RippleMatch).
Insights from the 2024 URx Leaders Summit Intern Conversion Headcount Workshop. Read on for actionable strategies on advocating for new grad headcount.
From 2024 URx Leaders Summit. A discussion led by CodePath on insights into Gen Z candidates, uncover their biggest frustrations, and explore what they value most in the hiring process.
2024 URx Leaders Summit Recap & Session Recordings! OneReq’s annual retreat welcomed University & Emerging Talent Recruiting Leaders and industry thought leaders from across the US, Canada, and EMEA over the for 2 days of collaborative innovation, meaningful connections, that drive growth and transformation.
Bringing together RecOps professionals together to dive into innovative technology, share insights, and discuss strategies to enhance your hiring process.
In today’s competitive talent market, ensuring your intern hires remain excited and committed after accepting an offer is critical.
Insights from the 2024 URx Leaders Summit Intern Conversion Headcount Workshop. Read on for actionable strategies on advocating for new grad headcount.
Tired of outdated processes? Join Emily Sung-Simon as she reveals how transforming Recruiting Operations at Postman boosted efficiency and aligned talent acquisition with business strategy.
Insights from the 2024 URx Leaders Summit Intern Conversion Headcount Workshop. Read on for actionable strategies on advocating for new grad headcount.
Insights from the 2024 URx Leaders Summit Intern Conversion Headcount Workshop. Read on for actionable strategies on advocating for new grad headcount.
Insights from the 2024 URx Leaders Summit Intern Conversion Headcount Workshop. Read on for actionable strategies on advocating for new grad headcount.
Insights from the 2024 URx Leaders Summit Intern Conversion Headcount Workshop. Read on for actionable strategies on advocating for new grad headcount.
A look back at RecOps Con 2024. The first conference curated specifically for recruiting operations professionals.
From RecOps Con 2024. Watch a real time demo of capacity planning followed by a Q&A.
From the RecOps Con 2024. Ashby CEO Benji Encz shares key lessons learned from world class RecOps teams.
From RecOps Con 2024. An insightful discussion on how teams are currently leveragin AI.
From RecOps Con 2024. Leigh Miller leads a conversation on driving innovation while remaining efficient with your recruiting tech stack.
From RecOps Con 2024. Jose Cong digs into the importance for recruiting operations pros and TA generally to adapt quickly to AI.
From RecOps Con 2024, hear from Mike Joyner & Amy Wood on how position yourself as a trusted partner to the business.
From RecOps Con 2024, Siadhal Magos dives into the hidden insights AI can unlock on your hiring conversations and how to action them.
From the 2024 RecOps Con a conversation on. enabling your recruiting teams.
From the 2024 RecOps Con, hear perspectives on the different career paths you can take within and outside of RecOps.
From the 2024 RecOps Con. A panel discussion explores what stakeholders from Finance, People Operations, & Head of TA expect from partnership with RecOps teams.
A recap of the challenges identified and key solutions shared during our UR & ET OneReq Leaders masterclass led by John Armstrong from Leadership Masterclass on the challenges that teams.
Announcing the Programming Committee for the 2024 RecOps Conference OneReq events are special because of the people from our community who lend their time and
OneReq’s Recruiting Operations Conference is a must attend for any RecOps professional. Use this template to convince your boss!
The Recruiting Operations Conference is bringing together the doers who understand that behind any exceptional recruiting team is a first-class talent operation.
The H1 2024 Benchmarking Report for University Recruiting was created from a survey of 63 companies.
OneReq’s Recruiting Operations Conference is a must attend for any RecOps professional. Use this template to convince your boss!
From URx Conference 2024. Learn how MongoDB is flipping the script on workplace well-being for their interns through the Bloom initiative and how you can create and implement a similar strategy.
Join us on stage at The Recruiting Operations Conference. Bringing together the doers who understand that behind any exceptional recruiting team is a first-class talent operation.
From URx Conference 2024, join Forte Foundation to identify tangible and actionable steps for advancing DEIB and how we explore strategies moving forward.
From the 2024 URx Conference. Susan Brien & Karis Boyd-Sinkler discuss Building strategic relationships with employers and how critical it is for connecting students to opportunities while showcasing the strengths of a university.
From URx Conference 2024. GeoComply walks through how they have strategically built strong relationships with student clubs and organizations that support DEI and equity-deserving groups.
From URx Conference 2024. Refine your recruitment strategy and discover how to leverage ChatGPT to optimize job descriptions, create success profiles, standardize interviews, and craft evaluation rubrics.
From URx COnference 2024. A dynamic conversation between representatives from industry, campus, and a workforce non-profit organization as they unpack what successful talent recruiting partnerships look like, where to find them, and how they can benefit your firm’s bottom line.
From the 2024 URx Conference. In today’s diverse workplace landscape, fostering an inclusive culture isn’t just a moral imperative—it’s also essential for organizational success.
From URX Conference 2024. Gain invaluable insights from industry experts and practitioners who have successfully leveraged collaboration with engineering leaders to recruit and onboard exceptional technical talent.
From URx Conference 2024, delve into the transformative possibilities of generative AI and stay ahead in the evolving landscape of recruitment and career development practices.
From URx Conference 2024, insights and strategies for effectively gaining support and alignment for campus recruiting initiatives.
From URx Conference 2024. Learn how to personalize communication, offer valuable resources, and create meaningful touchpoints to keep candidates engaged and motivated.
From URx Conference 2024. A panel discussion focused on the strategies, challenges, and opportunities involved in recruiting and growing early talent on a global scale.
From URx Conference 2024. This session dives into:
1. Sourcing candidates through recruiting partners like ReWriting the Code and Colorstack.
2. Engaging targeted talent in the spring and summer through virtual interview prep summits, “City Events” in summer internship hot spots like NYC and SF, and targeted conference engagement.
3. Leveraging former interns as “Duolingo Ambassadors” for scalable, more authentic campus recruiting efforts. (And keep our recruiters off the road!)
From URx Conference 2024. This session explores innovative approaches, emerging trends, and effective strategies for schools and companies to collaborate in preparing students for the workforce.
Join a panel featuring Farouk Dey, Vice Provost for Integrative Learning at Johns Hopkins University, Gino Rooney, Co-founder CEO of Classet and OneReq Founder Wahab Owolabi in a discussion moderated by Carmela Escarez on “How Shifting Workforce Talent Pipelines across Education and Industry is impacting the Future of Work”.
From URx Conference 2024. This panel brings together industry experts to delve into the transformative impact of AI on recruiting strategies.
From URx Conference 2024. This session unpacks the future of early talent recruiting and shares insights to help organizations thrive in the evolving talent acquisition landscape.
From URx Conference 2024. RippleMatch shares the latest data trends and benchmarks from their platform on Gen Z candidates and the recruitment landscape.
From the URx Conference 2024. Rewriting the Code has identified three high-impact features companies can leverage to maximize the internship experience, leading to increased acceptance of return offers and positive representation among their GenZ peers.
From URx Conference 2024. Who’s ready for the Class of ‘25? CodePath draws results from original research and insight to share the latest and greatest on how early career recruiting teams can reach, source, engage, and ultimately hire the next generation of tech talent, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds.
From the 2024 URx Conference. Watch HackerRank Founder & CEO Vivek Ravisankar give insights into how the role & assessment of software engineers has evolved and what it will look like in the future when considering AI.
URx Conference 2024: A Powerful Gathering of Professionals Working across the Emerging Talent Ecosystem
Thursday | March 21st, 12pm PST (3 PM EST)
5 actions to improve your candidate experience and boost pass through rates.
URx Leaders Summit was one for the books! OneReq’s annual retreat welcomed University & Emerging Talent Recruiting leaders and industry movers and shakers from all over the North America for 2 days of collaborative learning, networking, and growth.
URx Conference is unique in that our speakers come from our community. We want to hear from you, the people doing the work with the
The OneReq team is excited to announce that the URx Conference will back in-person in Las Vegas April 25-26, 2024
From the 2023 URx Leaders Summit
From the 2023 URx Leaders Summit.
A relationship-based approach to emerging talent recruiting. From the 2023 URx Leaders Summit.
From the 2024 URx Leaders Summit. Join Rewriting the Code in a conversation on effectively hiring early career talent across EMEA.
The energy and expertise of our community adds a special something to the experience of URx Conference. As we return to an in-person format, we’re
Join leaders in Emerging Talent Recruiting Dec 7-8 in San Diego!
Join leaders in Emerging Talent Recruiting and Workforce Development Dec 7-8 in San Diego!
Takeaways from an insightful discussion with OneReq community members on engaging your company’s Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) or Affinity Groups to connect with late stage candidates.
In this virtual OneReq Connect, hear from experts at Metaview, Replit, and Knoetic about how recruiters can leverage AI to supercharge efficiency and enhance the human aspects of hiring.
Bringing our community together to share, learn & grow. Featuring in-person and virtual experiences. Function-specific content and valuable networking opportunities. Open to all members, these events also encourage attendees to invite new members to join in the experience.
Hi Community! We hope you’re doing well, taking care, and enjoying your summer. We’ll fill you in on all things recruiting, the labor market, and
We are bringing together recruitment professionals in London. This will be an exciting networking event and an open forum discussion to chat all things recruitment in London and the broader EMEA region. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to share ideas while expanding your professional network.
Ripplematch is a Virtual recruiting Software that qualifies and sources applicants to create matchups between early career talent and university recruiters, companies and small businesses. Their focus is on diversity, pipeline building and finding talent that accurately reflects the needs of each position.
CodeSignal is an assessment platform for tech hires that provides a shared, real-time coding environment to predict a candidate’s skill, potential, and job performance.
Our first Roundtable focused on EMEA University and Emerging Talent Recruitment
This 2023 URx Conference focuses on various hiring strategies that optimize for building partnerships
In this 2023 URx Conference Session, learn about programs that have global presence
In this 2023 URx Conference Session, hear from panelists who have been impacted at organizations no longer able to invest in early talent programs
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In this 2023 URx Conference Session, hear from two students who share their perspective on early talent recruiting.
In this 2023 URx Conference session, RippleMatch presented new research on Gen Z’s job search challenges and how it impacts recruitment teams, and highlighted how top employers are rebuilding confidence in Gen Z candidates through innovative hiring strategies.
In this 2023 URx Conference session, learn how to write a great quarterly business report
In this 2023 URx Conference Session, a group of current students discuss barrier to entry for completing coding challenges or technical assessments.
In this 2023 URx Conference Session, Panelist Cat Pederson discussed the design and success of CDK Global’s Returnship Program.
In this 2023 URx Conference Session, panelists discussed how companies can build out long-term strategic and sustainable pipelines in the emerging talent space.
In this 2023 URx Conference Session, Panelists discussed strategies to influence their organizations and increase inclusive practices.
In this 2023 URx Conference session, seasoned UR experts shared their insights and experiences on how to build out a successful intern program
In this 2023 URx Conference Session, learn from a panel of experts about the nuances of personal branding and strategies for establishing an authentic and compelling online presence.
In this 2023 URx Conference Session, experts explored the importance of strong employer and talent branding for today’s digital age.
In this URx 2023 Conference Session, early talent leaders discuss how the state of the economy has resulting in operational downsizing, and share their experiences adapting to the impacts of the macro environment on their teams.
A look at how recruiters can leverage ChatGPT with content creator Jim Stroud including a worksheet you can use to begin leveraging the technology yourself.
From URx Conference 2023, this interactive keynote focuses on mindfulness to manage stress. In this session we learned how to Identify how stress shows up for us at work, spot the difference between reflection and mindfulness, and to strengthen the skill of staying present from moment to moment.
From URx Conference 2023. A fireside chat between Kimberly Brown, Career and Leadership Expert, and Wahab Owolabi, URx Founder discussing the state of the workforce, cultivating a spirit or resilience, and how to support incoming talent while you may be in the midst of redirecting your own career.
From the 2023 URx Conference. Sophie Novati Founder & CEO of Formation discusses strategies to better prepare your early career technical talent.
A framework for hiring Business Development Representatives (BDR).
Our annual report on compensation and employment trends impacting Talent Acquisition Professionals.
When hiring budgets shrink and competition for top talent intensifies, it’s crucial for talent acquisition professionals to adapt and transform. Here are 4 practical tips to help you navigate lean times.
Abode co-founder Parker Pell sat down with Monica Ipong of Crowdstrike and Natalie Sannes of dcdx to speak about Gen Z’s impact in the workplace. Here are the 4 key takeaways for shaping your early talent strategy with the research to back it up.
Inadequate resources can lead to misaligned expectations. In this far reaching conversation with Corey Twitty (Netflix), Ahmad Wright (Packard Foundation), & Farouk Dey (Johns Hopkins) we discuss securing resources for your DEI goals.
A candid, open conversation about life as a UR Leader featuring leaders from Hubspot, Applied Materials, Nvidia, and Unity Technologies.
Featuring OneReq & URx Founder Wahab Owolabi & Chris Motley, Founder of Mentor Spaces a candid discussion on the early career industry & the role URx Leaders can play in moving the industry forward.
An in depth look at the marketplace of tools available for UR Leaders. On this panel we will explore the options across all aspects of a program and how to identify the needs vs wants of your program
An in-depth conversation with two phenomenal Heads of Talent, Felice Ajlouny & Richard Cho on how UR leader can position yourself within your companies recruiting team to drive maximum results and advance your career.
A framework for hiring Sales Development Representatives (SDRs).
From the 2022 URx Leaders Summit. RippleMatch CEO Andrew Myers is joined by the UR Leadership team from Amplitude to discuss how they are leading their team and evolving their strategy in the light of the market slowdown.
From the 2022 URx Leaders Summit. Community Partner Rewriting the Code on How community insights helped eBay score the winning bid with student recruiting.
A Checklist for Reducing Early-Career Turnover
A framework for hiring a Recruiting Operations Manager.
Early career recruiters and leaders who share their insights on ways to maintain and amplify early talent strategies under resource-strapped environments
Diving into the how data, programs, operations, & strategy make up RecOps.
A guide to interviewing for a Recruiting Operations Manager role
So You’re Building an Early Career Program. A Virtual Learning Series for Establishing Your Campus Recruiting Program & Strategy
So You’re Building an Early Career Program. A Virtual Learning Series for Establishing Your Campus Recruiting Program & Strategy
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Watch this URx Roundtable hosted in partnership with Symba on Best practices for a high converting internship program.
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?
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.
Referrals can be a recruiting team’s best friend and arch nemesis. Check out this template for driving a referral program.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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)
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.
From the URx Leaders Summit 2021 Leaders Track. This conversation centers the global expansion of your recruiting program.
From the URx Leaders Summit 2021 Managers Track.
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.
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.
From the Leads track of URx Leaders Summit 2021. Join a conversation centering on making diversity equity and inclusion a priority on your team.
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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Learn more about how the Charles Schwab Foundation partnered with seven universities across the US to help increase underrepresented groups in Financial Planning.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Thinking of building an Apprenticeship Program? Hear from Airbnb, Blend, Novo Nordisk, Oscar Health and Robinhood as to how they built their programs.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A staple at every URx Conference, gain insights directly from the students you recruit.
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.
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.
For too long, organizations relied on target schools and employed strategies or traditional recruiting policies that left too many candidates out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pivoting your internship program from in person to remote? Use this contingency doc template to organize your team’s plans.
RippleMatch joins the URx community as a partner to share data-backed insights on the COVID-Era Campus Recruiting Landscape.
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.
A recap of the key steps and a few resources to help you get started with your first recruiting analytics dashboard.
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
Our Q4 University Recruiting Industry Benchmarking Survey is live. It covers the Fall season and the industry outlook for 2021.
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.
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
UR Leaders from CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks share their thoughts around creating a roadmap in a role with ever changing priorities.
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.
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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.
https://vimeo.com/513610872 Nicky Garcea(Cappfinity) & Author Lindsey Pollak
Lessons & Stories from Symba Cofounders as well as UR Leaders at Robinhood, CBS Interactive, and MGM International Resorts
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.
3 quick tips to make the most of attending the URx Global Leaders Summit presented by Cappfinity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
Continuing our Community Spotlights, we’re featuring Bridget King, a Talent Acquisition Manager, Early Professional Hiring at IBM and OneReq Community Engagement Lead.
Catch up on our most recent Slack AMA and read highlights with Jehron Petty, CEO & Founder of ColorStack
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.
We caught up with William Chichester, Senior Manager, Global University Recruiting at Microsoft for another Slack AMA.
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.
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!
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!
We recently caught up with our Community Partner Symba to discuss off-boarding all of our lovely remote summer interns!
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.
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.
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.
Learn how to build, execute, and scale a talent brand strategy. Included are tools that help building out an employer branding strategy.
An 30/60/90 goal based onboarding template for new recruiters.
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.
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.
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
Michele Tse moderates a timely panel discussion featuring recruiters at HBO, MongoDB, and Twitch discussing managing interns remotely.
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.
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.
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
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.
Watch this conversation from URx Forward 2020 on making the most out of your remote summer internship program.
Hear from Justin Palmer, Founder & CEO of Topfunnel on how best to establish relationships with top talent in a remote world.
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.
https://vimeo.com/423893665 Learn how to kick start your campus program and how to iterate on your approach as you consider going virtual. COLLEEN GRANTManager, Global Campus
https://vimeo.com/423898511 MATTHEW FRENCHAssistant Director, Employer Relations, University of North Carolina, CharlotteMIRIAM KARPILOWEmployer Relations, Career Services Center, University of San FranciscoNICOLE WRIGHTUniversity Recruiting Manager, GustoSTEPHANIE TYLERNational
https://vimeo.com/426274937 Conducting Remote Interviews Successfully CAROLYNN CHOI, University Technical Recruiter, SquareINBAR GAM, University Recruiting Program Manager, DatabricksNURAY MOLLA, Sr. Recruiter, University Recruiting, TeslaPAUL BAUER, University
Watch this panel from URx Forward 2020 featuring the Heads of Talent and Technical Recruiting at some of the worlds most innovative companies.
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
Learn how to quantify your program’s value to business leaders.
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.
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 a live online event bringing together our community to be connected, inspired, and prepared for whatever the new realities of recruiting hold for us.
Any successful recruiting program should have a balance of both in-person and virtual recruiting strategies.
Before you decide run a remote internship program, here are considerations to keep in mind.
Managing remote interns requires extra consideration to ensure the quality of the internship remains high
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.
An opportunity to build a talent acquisition ecosystem that works for everyone, together.
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. –
We see a huge opportunity for more, deeper partnerships between companies and universities that support students at scale.
A look back at an incredible experience at the 2019 URx Conference.
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
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
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
Announcing our URx Conference 2019 keynote speaker; Dr. Poppy Crum, Chief Scientist Dolby Laboratories.
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
At OneReq, we’re always looking for passionate professionals to help grow our community.
Looking back on an amazing second year and looking forward on to whats next.
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.
