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.
Community Newsletter – April 2022
Check out the latest issue below and don’t forget to subscribe.
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?
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
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.
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.
URx Leaders Summit 2021 | Recordings
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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.
