Hiring Plan: Business Development Representative
A framework for hiring Business Development Representatives (BDR).
2023 State of the Talent Acquisition Professional Report
Our annual report on compensation and employment trends impacting Talent Acquisition Professionals.
Embracing Opportunities for Growth In Challenging Economic Times
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.
Working for the Future: How Gen Z is Driving Workplace Transformation
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.
Securing Appropriate Resources for DEI Goals
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.
Navigating Life as an Emerging Talent Leader
A candid, open conversation about life as a UR Leader featuring leaders from Hubspot, Applied Materials, Nvidia, and Unity Technologies.
A Candid Discussion on Moving an Industry Forward
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.
Products & Tools: Identifying the necessary from the luxury
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
Owning Your Influence as a Recruiting Leader
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.
Hiring Plan: Sales Development Representative
A framework for hiring Sales Development Representatives (SDRs).
Leading through Change
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.
Leveraging Candidate Data & Community Insights in student recruiting
From the 2022 URx Leaders Summit. Community Partner Rewriting the Code on How community insights helped eBay score the winning bid with student recruiting.
4 Tips to Creating a Candidate-First Experience
A Checklist for Reducing Early-Career Turnover
Hiring Plan: Recruiting Operations Manager
A framework for hiring a Recruiting Operations Manager.
How early career teams can manage and achieve team goals in challenging times
Early career recruiters and leaders who share their insights on ways to maintain and amplify early talent strategies under resource-strapped environments
The Four Pillars of Recruiting Operations
Diving into the how data, programs, operations, & strategy make up RecOps.
Interview Prep: Recruiting Operations Manager
A guide to interviewing for a Recruiting Operations Manager role
URx Roundtable: Building an Early Career Recruiting Program (Session 2)
So You’re Building an Early Career Program. A Virtual Learning Series for Establishing Your Campus Recruiting Program & Strategy
URx Roundtable: Building an Early Career Recruiting Program (Session 1)
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
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.
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.
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
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
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 (Verkada, Cockroach Labs, Plaid, Veritas, BitGo)
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 eBay, 1Password, Perpetua, Dolby
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.
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.
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.
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
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.