Recognized for Excellence
Esri received a Campus Forward Award for Excellence in Early Career Recruitment Strategy, Innovation in Action, and Excellence in Candidate Experience.
This award celebrates the team’s strong dedication to fostering forward-thinking campus recruiting programs that convert top student talent, investing in advanced technology and AI transforming early career recruiting, and championing a standout candidate experience with authentic branding and transparent communication. See below for the highlights of their innovative approach to early career recruitment.
Excellence in Early Career Recruitment Strategy
The university recruiting team at Esri has created an innovative approach by offering a hybrid recruitment strategy incorporating on-campus career fairs at strategic universities, virtual university agnostic early ID webinars, and attendance at strategic diverse focused conferences such as NSBE, SASE, Grace Hopper, SWE, and Great Minds in STEM. Esri is also incorporating the AI tools provided by RippleMatch to reach students with the most applicable skillset to ensure the student application pipeline is as quality as possible before reaching the hiring team. Once students apply to the Esri internship applications, they prioritize a swift candidate experience.
Innovation in Action
Esri utilizes the RippleMatch platform to reduce quantity and increase quality of applicants. Esri internship postings are redirected to the RippleMatch company landing page. From there, Esri provides RippleMatch with target degrees, graduation date ranges, experience keywords, and target skillsets. The RippleMatch Automatch tool uses these keywords to reach students within the network. Esri utilizes tracking links to identify student source: Esri company landing page, RippleMatch company branded page, Handshake, LinkedIn, Instagram, or RippleMatch Automatch. Esri uses application volume and source analytics to gauge where to focus recruitment support versus where to slow. This helps Esri focus on quality over quantity.
Excellence in Candidate Experience
Candidate experience is an opportunity to share Esri’s company’s culture with potential hires. Once an applicant applies to an internship position, their resume is reviewed within 48-hours. At that time, students are notified via automated messaging if their resume has advanced. Once the application advances the Esri recruitment team takes time to match a student resume with a prospective internship project then introduce the student to the hiring manager for 1-2 video interviews. Final candidates receive an offer from an Esri recruiter with ample time to decide on the offer. Upon offer acceptance, students are invited to an exclusive communications platform where they are provided with weekly messages and monthly webinars to help them prepare for their internship experience.
