Zillow is a Campus Forward Award Winner

Zillow Group houses the largest portfolio of real estate brands on mobile and the web. They are on a mission to rewire the real estate transaction and are building transformational tools and services that make it easier for everyone to find and get into a home they love. Zillow is working to create an on-demand real estate transaction experience for every stage of the home lifecycle for buyers, sellers, renters and borrowers – and they're well on their way. No matter what job you’re in, you will play a critical role in making this vision a reality for millions of people.

Visit Zillow's Career page here.

Building an Innovative and Multi-Faceted Approach to University Recruiting

Although, they were challenged with another year of virtual recruiting, the Early and Emerging Talent Recruiting team continued to hire and cultivate the future leaders of Zillow. With a small, but mighty team they strategically planned programs that allowed exposure amongst a plethora of schools. They tailored their school discussions to offer more detailed information sessions by sending out a questionnaire prior to each event. From there they were able to include professionals from their company who were able to answer more personal questions from their own experiences. Additionally, they hosted their first HBCU Hackathon that featured 150 students and represented 17 HBCUs. Participants were able to conceptualize tech that could support Zillow’s mission to help consumers overcome obstacles on their journey to find a home. This opened the door for them to build stronger connections resulting in even more internship opportunities.

Crafting a Standout Candidate Experience

Early and Emerging Talent Recruiting team hires and cultivates the future leaders of Zillow to ensure the success of their company continues in an equitable and socially responsible way. They strive to identify and foster high-quality talent early in their career, that align with the company's core values and are passionate about Zillow’s mission. They execute over 45 events throughout the year to make sure they connect with a variation of top talent. This includes offering a 1 on 1 conversation with their current employees, interviewing workshops with tips from their very own recruiters, while also having an organized and smooth interview process. They pride themselves on empowering people with their passion and daily efforts. This supports begins at the recruiting process and grows as each candidate continues to succeed within their company.

Moving the Needle on Diversity & Inclusion

At Zillow Group, their efforts to streamline the real estate transaction is supported by their passion to empower people and enrich lives around everything home, a deep-rooted culture of innovation, a fundamental commitment to Equity and Belonging, and world-class benefits. They work extremely close with their ERG’s allowing candidates time to connect with individuals and ask them direct questions about their experience eventually leading to other networking opportunities. They also have their Zillow Engineering and Leadership Program, which is geared towards sophomore students from underrepresented backgrounds with a dedicated interest in computer science. This program aims to empower future engineers with opportunities for advancement and security for their future through development of their software engineering skills, soft skill development, mentorship, and networking opportunities.

Investing in Impactful Internship Programs

Home has never been more important and they’re working hard to make it easier than ever to move. Interns have the unique opportunity to work on high impact projects that shape the most significant moments of peoples’ lives and help them move forward. They have transitioned to a flexible and distributed workforce and their internships will give a first-hand experience of what life as a Zillow employee could look like. Interns will get to work with small teams on real-life business critical projects that have an impact on the company's performance. In addition to competitive pay, they offer temporary housing assistance and a summer packed with exciting events like an executive speaker series, a HackWeek event where interns can set aside daily work to focus on a passion project, community service projects and more.

Supporting the Growth and Development of Entry-Level Talent

Zillow is known for their leadership and innovation. More than a dozen years ago, the Zestimate changed the way people made decisions about where to live. Today, they’re creating integrated technologies that provide a truly seamless experience for customers and help more people move forward. They have transitioned into a distributed workforce and each role has been categorized as either remote, hybrid, office or in-field. Their offices will continue to be a place for teams to come together to enable productivity and collaboration. Zillow knows the dynamics between home and work are more important than ever. And that's true for their 6,000+ employees across the U.S. and Canada. Zillow strives to create a workplace where everyone feels that they have the support, flexibility and connection they need to manage their personal and professional lives.

Congratulations to the team at Zillow 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.

See all Award Winners for the category of Mid-Size Early Career Programs below