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The Pillars of an Award-Winning Program
HubSpot was selected as a 2023 Campus Forward Award Winner for their unwavering commitment to seeking out and hiring early career talent, their emphasis on diversity & inclusion, and investments in nurturing and retaining the next generation of talent. Please see below for the highlights of their approach to early career recruitment.
Demonstrated Investment in Early Career Hiring
HubSpot believes that building up the next generation of talent is an essential part of the success of its organization. That’s why the mission of the Global Emerging Talent Recruiting Team is to provide opportunities for students, career changers, returners, and more to start their tech career and help HubSpot learn from a diversity of talent in order to grow better. HubSpot's internship and entry-level program allows the company to funnel in diverse talent with the goal of growing this talent into the future leaders of the organization. From its award-winning internship program to DI&B strategies, HubSpot is excited to continue to build a standout program.
Innovative and Multi-Faceted Approach to University Recruitment
The Emerging Talent Team has a strategic approach to sourcing and recruiting, which includes relationships with schools across the globe to align with diversity, inclusion, and future growth goals. HubSpot has a focus on inbound marketing, which involves building meaningful, lasting relationships with prospects and customers. Taking this methodology, the team focuses on creating value and impact by curating content and resources that would be most valuable to students. The team has also hosted several virtual events, including workshops and panel discussions to attract candidates from non-traditional backgrounds. These events are more casual, allowing candidates to get to know HubSpot as a company. The Emerging Talent Team also runs a streamlined candidate experience, providing candidates with a summary of the hiring process, expected timelines, and feedback. The team connects with candidates before interviews to guide them on how to best prepare and what questions to expect to increase the candidate's confidence.
Overarching Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
HubSpot takes a thoughtful approach to its strategic partnerships, and is intentional about including many minority-serving institutions (HBCUs, HSIs, community colleges) and partnering with several non-traditional educational institutions, such as ColorStack. HubSpot has built the Center of Digital Business on Howard University’s campus, and partners with Code First Girls, which is aimed at helping female computer science students boost their resumes with projects. These partnerships provide opportunities for career mentorship and increased learning in the technology industry and digital business space. HubSpot also supports college and university professors through its Education Partner Program, which provides educators with everything they need to teach leading courses in marketing, sales, entrepreneurship, and communications.
Impactful Internship Program
The HubSpot team strongly believes that real, hands-on work is the best way for interns to experience the #HubSpotLife. Interns are treated like full-time employees and are given full autonomy and ownership of real projects that employees are actively working on. Interns also have the ability to make an immediate impact at HubSpot by proposing new projects to the business, and P&E interns are responsible for shipping code as part of their experience. In fact, interns at HubSpot are often mistaken for full-time employees! And they wouldn’t have it any other way. In addition to consistent performance feedback, the HubSpot team offers interns access to mentorship programs, professional development events throughout the year, social events, and much more. HubSpot wants to provide value to its interns in the hope that they will choose HubSpot for a full-time position upon graduation.
Growth and Development of the Next Generation of Talent
HubSpot obsesses over company culture. It’s why the company invests heavily in its employees’ success. It offers a variety of mentorship and coaching programs, access to employee resource groups, free monthly books, in-depth virtual onboarding and training programs, access to HubSpot’s Learning Academy, and more in order to ensure that hires feel that they can do their best work. In addition to these resources, managers facilitate career growth conversations with their interns and co-ops, encouraging them to create a set of goals that will help them map out future career aspirations. The organization has also moved to a hybrid model as an organization because it believes work isn’t a place and access to career opportunities and growth shouldn’t be defined by a zip code. By providing HubSpotters the option to work remotely, live the office life, or opt for hybrid, HubSpot prioritizes flexibility so that HubSpotters can do their best work.