Make Smarter Early Career Recruiting Decisions with Confidence
University Recruiting is under more pressure than ever: to deliver the right talent, prove ROI, and adapt to a changing workforce.
The University Recruiting Council (URC) gives you the recruiting intelligence, peer benchmarking, and advisory support to make confident decisions about your program, grounded in what leading teams are actually doing.
INSIGHT FOR HIGH-STAKES RECRUITING DECISIONS
Navigate the Biggest Challenges Facing Early Career Recruiting
AI & evolving skill needs
Prepare your strategy for AI-driven workforce change. Understand how leading employers are adapting hiring profiles, campus strategies, and candidate engagement models.
Workforce planning
Build stronger alignment between business demand, intern conversion, and long-term talent strategy, so early-career hiring is planned proactively, not reactively.
School strategy
Use data to decide where to deepen, reduce, or redesign campus investment based on pipeline quality, hiring outcomes, student fit, and peer benchmarks.
Application volume
Manage rising applicant volume without overwhelming recruiters or missing high-potential candidates — with smarter sourcing, screening, and funnel design.
ROI of Early Careers
Prove the business value of early-career programs with the metrics stakeholders care about, from retention and performance to cost, conversion, and future leadership pipeline.
Assessment & candidate quality
Protect hiring quality as AI changes how candidates apply, prepare, and complete assessments, while keeping your process fair, efficient, and defensible.
What leading early career teams use to stay ahead
What is the University Recruiting Council?
University Recruiting Council combines proprietary research, peer benchmarking, and dedicated advisory to help you make high-stakes recruiting decisions with confidence.
UR Intelligence Suite
Proprietary research and benchmarking to guide your most critical decisions. Access continuously refreshed intelligence on workforce planning, school strategy, candidate behavior, and program ROI—grounded in primary research and what leading teams are actually doing.
Tailored Advisory
Turn insight into action with dedicated, expert guidance. Work directly with a Strategy Lead to apply research to your program—pressure-test decisions, refine strategy, and move faster on your highest-stakes priorities.
Member Community & Connection
Learn from—and alongside—leaders solving the same challenges. Engage with a curated network of Heads of Early Career through executive forums, 1:1 connections, and closed-door events designed for real, high-value exchange.
The University Recruiting Council is a membership built for Heads of Early Career who need more than benchmarks.
Become a MemberMember Success Stories
“This partnership stands out because it does more than collect data. It gives us perspective. The combination of AI readiness insights and early career sentiment has reshaped how we think about opportunity, growth, and stability in an AI-driven world.”
– Current University Recruiting Council Member
Make better recruiting decisions with confidence
Get a clearer view of how your program compares, where to focus, and what to do next—grounded in proprietary research and peer insight.
The University Recruiting Council is a membership built for Heads of Early Career who need more than benchmarks. Submit your application to be considered and we’ll be in touch.
Avoid costly missteps, and solve problems you cannot solve alone.
Get sharp, credible answers when high-stakes questions hit.
Develop deep, ongoing relationships with your peers who operate under the same constraints, scrutiny, and stakes.
Learn from peers who are actively building and scaling new approaches.
“I rely on Veris heavily for the data and insight into what’s happening across early career hiring. Especially as we build our partnership strategy, it gives us something real to base decisions on instead of just guessing.”
– University Recruiting Council member