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The Pillars of an Award-Winning Program
SAP was selected as a 2024 Campus Forward Award Winner for their unwavering commitment to seeking out and hiring early career talent and investments in nurturing and retaining the next generation of diverse talent. Please see below for the highlights of their approach to early career recruitment.
Multi-Faceted and Thoughtful Approach to University Recruitment
SAP harnesses its goal of making the world run better by driving the recruitment of a diverse and talented group of candidates to align with SAP’s values of innovation. SAP Early Career Talent Attraction team is constantly adapting to feedback, while positioning themselves at the forefront of new engagement methodologies. SAP focuses on early career talent recruiting heavily, believing that students bring the ‘X-factor” to the company - something that is unique to each student. The intent of the array of webinars, university fairs, and early career workshops is to make early career roles at SAP accessible to everyone. By utilizing several university recruiting platforms, online and in person, the early career talent recruiting team constantly strives to ensure talents have access to an early career role at SAP no matter where they are located or have been educated.
Overarching Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
SAP’s Early Career Talent Attraction team has redefined early talent recruiting by using innovative strategies and a diverse collection of platforms. When hosting virtual informational panels and in-person hiring events, the team focuses on diverse location selection while ensuring that HBCUs and HSIs are included. To prep for these events, the team attends conferences such as the Grace Hopper Convention to learn more about how to recruit and support diverse candidates in historically underrepresented roles. SAP devotes time to sourcing from several organizations including CodePath’s info session and virtual career panel, Tech Together Seattle hackathon for women, and O4U Tech Conference for LGBTQ mentorship and recruiting. SAP also hosts early talent panels and 1:1 career conversation opportunities both virtually and in-person. For the sixth consecutive year in 2023, Forbes granted SAP their “America's Best Employers for Diversity Award”.
Impactful Internship Program
SAP believes experience and opportunity are paramount. Interns step into a hybrid environment with dynamic teams and work on projects where cross-collaboration, creativity, and learning abound. SAP Internship Experience Program (iXp) interns get the space to create their own experience and find their purpose at SAP through the Key Pillars of Learning; Know, Connect, and Grow. From Career Development Week to Day in the Life, SAP's offerings are focused on providing interns with a variety of ways to sharpen their skills and prepare for their career journey ahead.