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The Pillars of an Award-Winning Program
NetApp 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
NetApp is passionate about investing in early in career talent because an investment in early talent is an investment in the future. NetApp heavily invests in the next generation of leaders and diverse talent through early in career development because that is what builds such a strong foundation for the organization to continue to grow and excel in this ever-changing landscape. In fact, investing in early in career talent is what gives NetApp a competitive edge within their workforce and organization, as it continues to leverage that pipeline to build and develop the company’s next generation of leaders.
Innovative and Multi-Faceted Approach to University Recruitment
The early in career team at NetApp utilizes a variety of innovative strategies to attract and recruit early in career talent, like the various Talent Outreach events that the team works diligently to attend all across the United States, to the hundreds of universities and schools that the team works to partner with. Additionally, the team partners with a robust Talent Brand department to ensure that a variety of advanced strategies are employed to connect with talent virtually as well through social media platforms, virtual campus engagements, and more. Throughout the team’s candidate-focused recruitment process, the Early In Career team ensures that candidates are receiving a positive experience when applying for, interviewing for, and onboarding for new positions.
Overarching Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
NetApp’s laser-focus on the initiatives related to Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging includes ensuring that recruiting is inclusive of non-traditional populations and talent pipelines through partnerships with HBCUs, Veteran and Military Spouses populations, career transitioners, and a variety of diversity-focused university-led partnerships. Through strengthening relationships with organizations like Braven, AMIE, HFSV, and AWS Educate, NetApp ensures that recruiting diverse talent is at the forefront of the Early In Career team’s agenda. Attraction, retention, and promotion of diverse early in career talent is imperative to NetApp’s continued success and through robust internal mobility efforts, diverse talent is continually promoted, highlighted, and developed.
Impactful Internship Program
NetApp’s global internship program aims to provide a transformational experience for a diverse array of interns that allows them to refine their interests, passions, and career aspirations to develop a robust talent pipeline for early in career positions. Throughout the program, NetApp provides interns with the opportunity to apply classroom learnings and work experience at NetApp, work on impactful projects with direct business critical impact, develop knowledge and skills both professionally and personally, build a strong cross-functional and global network with not only those in their intern cohort, but also with employees across the business, immerse themselves in NetApp’s collaborative culture, and of course, be considered for future full-time positions. Through the programs’ robust Mentorship Program, professional and leadership development opportunities, From the Lens of the Leaders Series, and more, NetApp interns receive the opportunity to grow and develop through the world-class internship program.
Growth and Development of the Next Generation of Talent
NetApp invests in the retention and development of entry-level hires through several programs curated specifically for early in career talent. One of those talent programs, the NetApp Emerging Talent Program, aims to invest in the growth and development of NET Program participants by increasing their opportunity for impact and inspiring them to have long-term, successful careers with NetApp. Outcomes for participants are that they will develop a strong support network, including an inclusive, global NET community, and will develop growth mindsets and have improved capacity and confidence to lead. Additionally, the Sales, Support, and Services (S3) Academy is a two-year global development program for early in career participants who aspire to become the next generation of NetApp leaders, sales professionals, and technical pioneers. Throughout the program, S3 participants are immersed in the software, systems, and cloud technologies that are helping shape the world today and tomorrow.