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The Pillars of an Award-Winning Program
Thermo Fisher Scientific 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
Thermo Fisher Scientific believes that to be successful, it needs to have a culture that invests in early talent and play an active role in empowering them to have a strategically impactful career trajectory with the company. This enables Thermo Fisher Scientific to actively tailor its workforce by pipelining early talent into critical roles requiring niche and new skills, help drive increased collaboration, and fuel its team with passionate changemakers.
Innovative and Multi-Faceted Approach to University Recruitment
Thermo Fisher Scientific has a hybrid recruitment model that allows the team to flex per the needs of the business and its universities — enabling the company to drive both student and faculty engagement toward a stronger partnership. Further, the team is dedicated to leveraging the latest innovative platforms targeted toward facilitating a broader reach through virtual engagement and personalized messaging.
Overarching Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
As a global organization, Thermo Fisher Scientific is inherently an inclusive environment that values the power of diverse talent and how variegated backgrounds drive innovation and transformative experiences for colleagues and customers. Through its nine BRGs, Thermo Fisher Scientific actively partners with organizations in communities around the world that serve people of color and underrepresented groups, whether it be through in-kind giving, talent acquisition, volunteerism, and more. The company is committed to inspiring a new generation of changemakers through its signature STEM education programs, and has also established talent pipelines with SWE, NSBE, and INROADS to support early talent generation.
Impactful Internship Program
Thermo Fisher Scientific provides a dynamic collection of program offerings and curated content for its interns across their summer experience. Interns benefit from community events, leadership development activities such as resume workshops, public speaking, and building their personal brand, learning how to strategically develop their professional network, and having the ability to interact with senior leadership via Executive coffee chats and presentations. Near the culmination of their internship, students have the opportunity to formally showcase their tangible contributions by highlighting their accomplishments, communicating their challenges, and driving the evolution of the organization by recommending continuous process improvement.
Growth and Development of the Next Generation of Talent
Thermo Fisher Scientific has made a strong commitment toward engaging early talent at the nascent stages of the recruitment process through the onboarding experience of its new colleagues. The company infuses community and relationship-building via its Colleague Ambassador Program, regular cadence skip-level meetings, and nurturing a strong sense of belonging through its nine BRGs — available locally at the site level and globally across the business. Colleagues are given the opportunity to continue their professional development through a virtual learning portal with a vast array of opportunities, as well as participate in stretch assignments with leaders in order to build and expand their cross-functional skillset for future growth.