NetApp is a Campus Forward Award Winner

NetApp is a global cloud-led, data-centric software company that empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated digital transformation. The company provides systems, software and cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally from data center to cloud, whether they are developing in the cloud, moving to the cloud, or creating their own cloudlike experiences on premises. With solutions that perform across diverse environments, NetApp helps organizations build their own data fabric and securely deliver the right data, services and applications to the right people—anytime, anywhere.

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Building an Innovative and Multi-Faceted Approach to University Recruiting

NetApp’s Early In Career Team is committed to creating an engaging experience when it comes to attraction of intern and entry-level talent. With a focus on diversity, inclusion and providing a truly unique experience, NetApp has made it a priority to host and attend events that are intentional and empathetic towards all candidates. Some examples of their reach include partnerships with professional organizations for underrepresented minorities, hosting webinar series and professional development events. NetApp strives to build meaningful relationships with incoming talent by creating a personalized candidate experience through the variety of audiences they engage with in their recruitment efforts.

Crafting a Standout Candidate Experience

NetApp’s Early In Career Team commitment to a positive candidate experience starts from the application process and extends through onboarding. For some teams, those initial interviews might be conducted via Zoom conversation, and for others, it may be a pre-recorded video. All candidates work with their assigned recruiter who specializes in a functional area of the business. This allows candidates an opportunity to work with a recruiter who can consider them for multiple openings within the company based on their skillset. The Early In Career Team offers candidates insight into the interview process to ensure they feel comfortable and prepared prior to interviewing with the team.

Moving the Needle on Diversity & Inclusion

Hiring intern and entry-level talent into an organization is crucial to creating a diverse and inclusive culture across the company. NetApp’s Early In Career Team is committed to connecting with a range of candidates from universities, non-traditional educational institutions, underrepresented minority partnerships, and veteran organizations across the country. To ensure the company is connecting and engaging with a diverse slate of candidates, they have partnered with AMIE (Advancing Minorities in Engineering) to build relationships at HBCUs across the country, in addition to initiatives with HSIs as well. This is all done in partnership with allies within the NetApp organization, along with strong partnerships between the Early In Career Team and Employee Business Resource Groups.

Investing in Impactful Internship Programs

At NetApp, interns represent a number of diverse learning backgrounds including universities, certification and bootcamp programs, and military fellowships. Interns work on meaningful and business-critical projects that offer them an opportunity to create a lasting impact on the business, develop their personal and professional skillsets, and work alongside top-of-class industry professionals. NetApp’s Early In Career Team hosts over 30 events including executive leader fireside chats, Day in the Life sessions with employees across the company, development trainings to help strengthen professional brand, and a cross-functional mentorship program in partnership with NetApp’s Women in Technology (WIT) chapter. Interns got creative during the canvas paint event and enjoyed an intern-led cooking class. The team hosted the 2nd annual Innovation Challenge where interns met in cross-functional teams to solve a real business challenge and presented their solutions for prizes!

Supporting the Growth and Development of Entry-Level Talent

The NetApp Emerging Talent (NET) Program is dedicated to investing in the growth and development of all full-time Early In Career hires at NetApp. Within their first three months, all Early In Career full-time hires participate in our global NET Orientation where they are introduced to the NET Program’s monthly global events and offerings including: Social and Volunteer Events, Executive Speaker Series, Financial Fitness Series, Learning from the Experts – Professional and Technical Development Series, and our annual Early In Career Innovation Challenge. Individuals who are in customer-facing roles are invited to take part in the S3 Academy, a 2-year global professional development program that begins with 90 days of classroom training which immerses participants in the software, systems, and cloud technologies that are helping shape the world today and tomorrow. After training, each S3 Academy class reconnects every 6 months for strategic professional and leadership development.

Congratulations to the team at NetApp for being selected as one of the winners of RippleMatch's 2022 Campus Forward Awards!

RippleMatch's Campus Forward Awards recognizes the top early career teams and programs in the nation. Through a detailed application process, early career teams shared their approach to recruitment, candidate experience, D&I, and internship & entry-level programming. The programs picked for this award represent the best of the best, selected from applications submitted by campus recruiting teams across industries.

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