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.
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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.
Building a Virtual Internship Program
Covid-19 created an unprecedented situation around the globe that forced many individuals to abruptly transition from a traditional office environment into a completely virtual and distributed system. Hear from the Splunk team on how they transitioned to hosting a fully virtual internship program.
Recruiting The COVID-Era Young Professional
How Top Employers are Recruiting and Retaining – The Next Generation of Talent. Watch URx21 Sponsor, RippleMatch, lead an Interactive session on how the past year, COVID-19 has changed what students are looking for in their first jobs and internships.
Scholarships – Encouraging Students from Underrepresented Communities to Consider Careers in your Industry
Learn more about how the Charles Schwab Foundation partnered with seven universities across the US to help increase underrepresented groups in Financial Planning.
Virtual Fall OCRs…Again
Virtual info sessions, career fairs, workshops and interviews. Hear from Hubspot, KraftHeinz, Lyft and Robinhood on how they managed virtual OCRs in 2020 and what they have planned for fall 2021.
Preparing Your Interns and New Grads for Day 1 in a Virtual World
Introducing interns to their managers & mentors, scheduling meet & greets with the class and building onboarding plans. Hear from Bose, Workday, Zynga and Ankura on how they prepared their interns and new grads for Day 1 virtually.
Building Talent Pipelines for Women of Color
Did you know only 7% of organizations have targeted efforts that focus on gender and race? Forward thinking organizations have an opportunity to be intentional in building the diversity pipeline by focusing on the intersectional experience. In this engaging program, Chelsea C. Williams, Founder & CEO of College Code, will support talent practitioners in building the talent pipeline for women of color through conscious candidate attraction, sourcing & selection.
Coming Back to the Nest: Successful Alumni Engagement Drives Career Outcomes
Engaging alumni virtually or in-person is a win for colleges in its own right. But engaging alumni to build recruiting opportunities and empower student success is an even bigger victory.
Gen Z Talent and Remote Work – What Waterloo’s data is telling us
Join this session to hear the latest insights about how Gen Z has adapted to learning and working remotely during the pandemic. We will also share new data collected from students who worked for US organizations, highlighting trends related to recruitment, onboarding and overall student experience. Plus, hear directly from Waterloo co-op students about their remote work experiences.
Cultural Competence in Computing: A case study on a systemic approach to addressing tech diversity
A case study on a systemic approach to addressing tech diversity issues. Join us as we learn more about Duke University’s new Cultural Competence in Computing (3C) professional development program.
Fireside Chat with April Curley
In a live conversation at URx Conference 2021 we discussed;
📍 April’s experience as a POC university recruiting professional focused on diversity recruiting.
💡 April’s perspective on diversity & HBCU recruiting strategy.
🌟 Whats next for April!
Building an Apprenticeship Program
Thinking of building an Apprenticeship Program? Hear from Airbnb, Blend, Novo Nordisk, Oscar Health and Robinhood as to how they built their programs.
Navigating Clubhouse – Technical Recruiters Edition
What is the new hype of recruitment on Clubhouse (CH)? Jobseekers and recruiters describe CH as the never ending career fair. Since there are many new and untapped capabilities that employers can explore on CH, your recruitment team can be a pioneer on the audio-based beta app. By joining the workshop, you will learn from how recruiters are currently navigating CH and actionable takeaways on how you can recruit prospective candidates!
Building a Diverse Workforce through Early Talent ID
Have you thought about building an early-ID program for freshman / sophomores but not sure where to start? Join the early talent team at IBM to hear how they successfully created a diversity focused early talent identification program, IBM Accelerate, from the ground-up. This session will focus on best practices when designing a new program, lessons learned and the importance of developing future talent early.
Recruiting the Rainbow
URx Conference 2021: Sourcing diverse talent is a challenge. LGBTQ+ talent is no exception. In many cases it can be more difficult to find these candidates due to stigma, fear and a lack of resources. In this presentation we will cover the best approaches to locating and utilizing LGBTQ+ talent pools to pull from a diverse group with intersectionality across race, gender identity, veteran status, age and more.
High-Performing Lean UR Teams – Mid-Size to Large Companies
Interviews, on-campus recruiting, onboarding, intern program events, mid-point check-ins, oh my! Hear from Autodesk, CrowdStrike, General Dynamics and MongoDB on how they’ve managed it all with a lean UR team.
How to Innovate Campus Recruiting in the Brave New World
In this session, Tom Brunskill, CEO of Forage, will highlight the most innovative approaches to discovering early talent that Forage partners do very differently, so different that they were able to survive and thrive in 2020. Join this session to learn how you too can thwart disruption and ride the wave of transformation into the brave new world of early talent.
Programmatic Engineer Hiring – Doing More with Less
Moving from a reactive recruiting model to proactive during COVID-19 and unprecedented times for entry level Engineer roles. How to take a programmatic approach to creating a diverse candidate flow for hard to hire roles and backfilling attrition prior to having vacancies on a very low budget.
How Peloton Ensures Their Hiring Process is Fair
This session focuses on Peloton’s approach to DEI, and how they create a consistent hiring bar and establish a more inclusive candidate hiring process. We’ll discuss their top data points that help candidates build confidence in the company, why these data points are important, and examine fairness in assessments in more detail.
URx21: Student Panel featuring ColorStack and Rewriting the Code
A staple at every URx Conference, gain insights directly from the students you recruit.
How we created an Inclusive Environment for our New Hires
Wanting to make sure you create an environment where your new hires feel supported and a sense of belonging? Hear from Revantage, Chevron, Twitter and USAA on how they’ve built an inclusive environment for their new hires.
Fostering the Intern & New Grad Community
Are you onboarding interns and new grads remotely this year? Hear from Symba, Datadog, Duolingo, Gusto and Shopify on how they’ve fostered the intern and new grad community.
Overcoming Bias and Early Career Recruitment and Hiring
For too long, organizations relied on target schools and employed strategies or traditional recruiting policies that left too many candidates out.
Designing Batch Interview Days for Intern Hiring
The session will provide specific details, preparation, execution, and outcome summary of “sell/batch” interview day(s) that Zwift created to efficiently hire our Summer Zwifterns (Interns) into a 12-week program.
Lessons Learned from 2020: Startups to Mid-Size Companies
2020 was unprecedented for us all – learning new ways to recruit, engage, interview and onboard. Hear from Roblox, Credera, Echo Global Logistics and Pure Storage on lessons they learned from 2020.
Lessons Learned from 2020: Large Companies
2020 was unprecedented for us all – learning new ways to recruit, engage, interview and onboard. Hear from Paypal, Adobe, eBay and Nordstrom on lessons they learned from 2020.
Creating an Engaging and Scalable Virtual Candidate Experience
2020 was a year of trial by (dumpster) fire. At Duolingo, we were forced to rethink how we engage with candidates in this new fully remote world. In a year full of chaos, we were determined to make Duolingo a bright moment in our candidates’ 2020 journey So, what did we do to make this a reality? We’ll be sharing our insights on how to create a high-touch candidate experience from application to offer in a fully remote environment.
High-Performing Lean UR Teams – Startups to Mid-Size Companies
Interviews, on-campus recruiting, onboarding, intern program events, mid-point check-ins, oh my! Hear from Gusto, Roku, Quora and Zynga on how they’ve managed it all with a lean UR team.
What to Expect at URx Conference 2021
URx Forward is more than just a conference. It is a time for our community to come together. Here is what to expect at #URx21.
URx Forward 2021 Opening Keynote: Fireside Chat with April Curley
We are beyond excited to announce that our opening keynote at URx Forward 2021 will be a Fireside chat with Diversity Specialist, Educator, and former Google Recruiter April Curley.
URx Year 5 (Part 2)
Creating a New System for University and Early Career Recruiting. In part 1, I talked about the changing role of UR Leaders and teams and what that means for the current system as the early career recruiting industry continues to evolve. Now let’s focus on the system.
URx Year 5
Blurred Lines between University Recruiting & Diversity Recruiting. The line between diversity recruiting and university recruiting in the tech industry is blurring. There is an increased focus on recruiting early career talent as a means to bring more diversity to the industry.
Remote Internship Program – Contingency Plan Template
Pivoting your internship program from in person to remote? Use this contingency doc template to organize your team’s plans.
RippleMatch joins OneReq as a Community Partner
RippleMatch joins the URx community as a partner to share data-backed insights on the COVID-Era Campus Recruiting Landscape.
Building Relationships and Creating Cross-Functional Partnerships as a UR Leader
Building strong xfn relationships internal is key to success as a UR Leader. Watch this session featuring UR Leaders at Netflix, Twitch and Paylocity on the topic.
4 Key Steps to Building Your First Recruiting Analytics Dashboard
A recap of the key steps and a few resources to help you get started with your first recruiting analytics dashboard.
Recap: Q1 URx Community Call
We hosted the first Community Call of 2021 for URx (University Recruiting). We had over 100 members join! Below are a few discussion highlights and
URx Q4 University Recruiting Benchmarking Survey
Our Q4 University Recruiting Industry Benchmarking Survey is live. It covers the Fall season and the industry outlook for 2021.
Accelerating Change: Lessons learned from the first wave of virtual recruitment
Cappfinity Co-founder, Nicky Garcea and Author, Lindsey Pollak is joined by Jada Green of Accenture for a keynote presentation at URx Leaders Summit 2020 reflecting on the digital transformation that has taken place over the last six months.
Diversifying Pathways: 2021 Recruiting
Shanice Smith is a college student studying Emerging Media Technology at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Last Tuesday I had the opportunity to
Crafting a Blueprint for the Future as UR Leaders
UR Leaders from CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks share their thoughts around creating a roadmap in a role with ever changing priorities.
There’s No ‘I’ in Team: Building and Scaling with a Team of One
In this discussion, we will share best practices about maximizing time and impact for a 1-person team to build the foundation for University Programs or new program initiatives.
Leading Effective Teams with UR Leaders from USAA, Plaid, and Twitch
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2020 :: The Student Perspective
Keeping touch with the perspective of our candidates, in this case students is fundamental to making sound strategic & process decisions. Watch this session to stay in touch with the reality of those our decisions impact.
Enabling Change – How Do Talent Leaders Overcome the Barries to Reaching and Engaging More Diverse Talent
https://vimeo.com/513610872 Nicky Garcea(Cappfinity) & Author Lindsey Pollak
Designing a Winning Remote Internship Experience
Lessons & Stories from Symba Cofounders as well as UR Leaders at Robinhood, CBS Interactive, and MGM International Resorts
Early ID Programs for Sophomores
Early ID is more than a program, it’s a mindset. Join this session to hear about leveraging early ID programs to attract and secure talent as early as sophomore year.
Making the most of the URx Global Leaders Summit
3 quick tips to make the most of attending the URx Global Leaders Summit presented by Cappfinity.
URx Global Leaders Summit Keynote
Kelly Garcea, Co-Founder of Cappfinity & New York Times best selling author Lindsey Pollak will keynote the inaugural URx Global Leaders Summit sponsored by Cappfinity.
Shopify’s Life Story Interview: Discovering Potential in Early Talent
Whether someone was a valedictorian or a high school drop-out, there is a broad spectrum of life experiences that candidates have grown through that can show our interviewers whether someone is the right match for Shopify.
Batch Week Technical Interviewing In University Recruiting
One of the many joys of University Recruiting season is a big uptick in interview volume. This can lead to burnout amongst the engineers conducting the interviews, and we know cranky engineers make for bad candidate experiences! Using a batch week process can be a solution to interview overload.
Key Takeaways from our Benchmarking Report
As we head into the fall recruiting season, the URx Team decided to create a survey that would benchmark university recruiting programs, fall recruiting strategies, and intern & new grad compensation. Here’s some of the key takeaways from the data we collected in the survey.
Update: Our efforts supporting underrepresented talent impacted by the pandemic
Students, specifically those from underrepresented backgrounds have been facing uncertainty around their career prospects due to the pandemic. When we saw this, we decided to take action, laying out a roadmap for helping them navigate the uncertainty and create opportunity for themselves. We’ve been heads down working to execute and honor that commitment. I’d like to take a moment to give an update.
3 Key Strategies to Drive Candidate Engagement at Virtual Conferences
With the majority of conferences going virtual this year, driving booth traffic and meaningful candidate interactions has become more challenging than ever. Here are a few ways from Renee Davis, University Recruiting Manager at Duolingo, recommends to maximize your presence and engagement at virtual conferences this year!
Navigating a Remote Summer Internship at Affirm
Melanie Shaver is a University Program Manager at Affirm, As an impact-driven leader, her career has been focused on leading teams to success, breaking down
