Relive the conversations, insights, and moments that defined this year’s event. From keynote sessions to practitioner-led discussions, these recordings capture the ideas shaping the future of emerging talent recruiting and development.
To our speakers, sponsors, and attendees: thank you for making URx possible. Your ideas, partnership, and participation are what make this community special.
URx10 recordings are included for all attendees and OneReq PRO members.

AI in Early Talent: Shifting from Activity to Outcomes
In this session from URx, Yello’s Mike Megarian and Morgan Repovz share data-backed insights on how AI is reshaping campus recruiting, and introduce an AI-powered recruiting agent that pre-books top candidates for interviews before events even start, helping teams shift from activity to outcomes and finally prove their ROI.

Beyond the Resume: Identifying AI-Ready Candidates Before the Interview
Drawing on a peer-reviewed study of tech hiring managers, this panel from URx10 reveals the seven traits that consistently predict new-grad success in an AI-integrated workplace and the practical screening tools that surface them before a single interview is scheduled.

Beyond Volume Hiring: Building High-Signal Internship Programs
As budgets tighten and scrutiny increases, this URx10 session explores how teams are building high-impact internship programs by embracing smaller, more intentional cohorts, and turning selectivity into a competitive advantage.

Bridging the Gap: Effective Management of a Multi-Model Global Internship
From URx10, join CrowdStrike’s Emerging Talent team to learn the frameworks and key ingredients for building and managing a global internship program.

Don’t Underestimate Your Influence: What Forward-Leaning UR Teams Are Doing Differently
With application volume tripling and cheating attempts surging, this keynote from URx10 unpacks how the most forward-thinking university recruiting teams are redesigning assessment, rethinking traditional proxies like GPA and school name, and using skills data to lead with influence in a rapidly shifting landscape.

Global Early Talent Hiring: Scaling Intern & New Grad Programs Across Borders
From UrX10, this session offers practical frameworks for building global early-talent programs that hold together across wildly different recruiting cycles, university systems, and cultural expectations without losing the local nuance that makes them work.

Great Tech Isn’t Just in Tech: Winning Early Talent Beyond Big Tech
This session from URx10 explores how organizations outside the traditional tech sector are reframing their stories to attract early-career technical talent to some of the most complex, high-impact engineering challenges happening today.

Hiring for Signal in an AI-First World
As AI makes polished answers and assisted coding easier than ever, this URx10 session explores how hiring teams are rethinking early talent evaluation to focus on what truly can’t be faked—problem-solving ability, learning velocity, and sound judgment.

How Universities Are Closing the Gap Between Classroom and AI-Reshaped Careers
From URx10, university leaders come together for an honest dialogue about the widening gap between what campuses are producing and what employers now demand in an AI-transformed workforce.

Stop Counting Start Convincing: The Early Careers Story That Drives Impact
From URx10, this session teaches early-career leaders how to move beyond activity-based reporting and connect disconnected data into a compelling narrative that links talent investment directly to the business outcomes executives actually care about.

The Campus Recruiting Experience: What Students Really Think
Drawing on a survey of 900 college students, this URx10 session reveals the expectations gap between candidates and employers, and how teams like Spectrum’s are closing it with faster, more personalized follow-up that turns early conversations into accepted offers.

The Hiring Problem AI Can’t Fix: A Mizuho x Marcy Lab School Case Study in Apprenticeship Design
Using Mizuho’s ApprenTECH program as a real-world case study, this URx10 session moves beyond apprenticeship theory to explore what it actually takes to build a practical, sustainable alternative hiring pipeline inside a real organization.

The Intern Isn’t Obsolete, But Your Hiring Strategy Might Be: Why Early Career Talent Is Your Best AI Investment
Grounded in workforce data and TA economics, this URx10 session makes the case for why interns and new grads are uniquely positioned to grow alongside AI-enabled workflows, and why leading organizations are expanding, not shrinking, their early-career pipelines.

The Referral Takeover: Preventing Informal Networks From Dominating Your Pipeline
From UrX10, this session explores how leading teams are rebalancing their approach by maintaining the strength of referrals while protecting space for diverse, high-potential talent from outside networks.

They Said AI Would Kill Junior Hiring. They Were Wrong
From URx10, this session with Amanda Richardson, CEO of CoderPad, challenges the narrative that AI is replacing early career talent.

Where the Money Goes: UR Budget Decisions That Actually Move the Needle
In this URx10 session, university recruiting leaders share how they’re making tough budget calls in a constrained environment—what they’ve cut, what they’ve kept, and how they’re aligning every dollar to measurable business outcomes.

Why First-Gen Talent Will Be Your Next Competitive Differentiator
From UrX10, this session explores how first-gen talent, defined by unique adaptability and navigational capital, can become a primary driver of innovation within organizations.

You’re Not Losing Talent. You’re Losing Attention.
From URx10 a talk on how in the AI era, attention is becoming the most critical talent infrastructure—determining whether early-career programs produce resilience, retention, and sustainable performance or accelerated burnout.