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Serving the country's top University Recruiting leaders in their hardest work

Attracting & engaging top candidates
Building a leading-edge early talent program
Navigating changes in the UR landscape
Influencing & aligning the business

What is the University Recruiting Council?

At a glance, it’s the premier University Recruiting analytics membership. Veris Insights’ University Recruiting Council (URC) provides research, tools, and advisory services to UR leaders from hundreds of organizations.

Access the World’s Largest Database of University Recruiting Intelligence
Attracting & Engaging Top Early Talent
Setting On-Campus Strategy
  • Innovating Event Portfolio
  • Strategic School Selection
  • Selecting Recruiting Timelines
Optimizing Candidate Experience
  • Proactive Sourcing Strategy
  • Crafting a Compelling EVP
  • Reducing Reneges
Designing Best-in-Class Programming
  • Summer Internships
  • Early Identification Programs
  • In-Year Co-Ops
  • Leadership Development Programs
Establishing & Maintaining a Leading-Edge Early Talent Program
Running a High-Performing Team
  • Setting UR Team Structure
  • Upskilling Recruiters → Advisors
  • Incentives, Results, Performance
Keeping Up with Competitors
  • Tracking Competitor Practices
  • Benchmarking Tactics, KPIs, Results
  • Winning Top Talent
Optimizing UR Technologies
  • Selecting Sourcing Tools
  • Streamlining Tech Stack
  • Driving Automation
Navigating Today's Landscape with Agility
Targeting Niche Talent Types
  • Women in Tech
  • AI, Cyber, Cloud Engineers
  • Accounting Talent
Driving Efficiency
  • Strategically Cutting Costs
  • Protecting Recruiting Team
Responding to AI
  • Responding to Candidate Use of GenAI
  • Integrating AI into Recruiting Process
Improving DEI
  • Targeting Candidate Demographics
  • The Business Case for DEI
Influencing & Aligning the Business
Educating Key Stakeholders
  • Aligning Hiring Managers
  • Educating Partners on ‘Modern UR’
  • Telling a Data-Driven Story
Engineering Strong Workforce Planning
  • Setting Timelines for Campus
  • Aligning on Clean Requisition Process
  • Gaining Buy-In from HR Leadership
Justifying Early Talent Investments
  • Calculating ROI on Tools
  • Building the Business Case for UR
  • Benchmarking Spend vs. Competitors

Leverage an Unmatched Network of Industry Leaders

University Recruiting Council Annual Members Meeting

The largest gathering of early talent recruiting leaders in the world, URC AMM is the premier, most exclusive University Recruiting event of the year. Members come together to discuss trends, collaborate on challenges, and connect with peers across 35+ industries.

Access the World's Largest
University Recruiting Intelligence Database

On-Demand Insights
Trainings & Strategy Workshops
Real Time Trends & Challenges
Dedicated Strategy Lead
Time-Saving Tools

Empower your team to make data-informed decisions with on-demand insights in The Member Library. This exclusive database houses hundreds of research studies, actionable guides, and interactive tools that help our membership recruit smarter. 

A dedicated Strategy Lead will run sessions focused on preparing hiring managers, intern program managers, campus ambassadors, and recruiting teams to create exceptional experiences for interns and entry-level talent. They will pair student and employer research with checklists, guides, and toolkits to upskill UR teams. Additionally, members are granted access to regular Lunch & Learns and Working Groups that managers and recruiters may attend.

Through granular student insights, in-depth employer benchmarking, continuous market pulses, and actionable strategies, members stay ahead of the curve with knowledge into the trends and challenges they are facing in the here and now.

Our dedicated Strategy Leads are a key to unlocking membership value. Strategy Leads are research experts who uniquely serve each member based on their UR team’s maturity level, challenges, and goals. This includes (but is not limited to!) recurring service calls, strategy sessions, team workshops and presentations, tailored executive decks, conversations with stakeholders, and ongoing support for internal projects.

  • Sourcing Tools: Save dozens of hours manually sourcing clubs and conferences with your target talent.
  • SchoolScope: Refine your school selection strategy to hone in on schools with the highest return.
  • Legislative Tracker: Easily stay abreast of what’s new in Early Career legislation.

Trusted by hundreds of Fortune 1000 leaders

Developing innovative solutions for unique challenges

Guidance Through a Major Reorganization

A large professional services firm announced a major reorganization. Veris Insights helped to assess student awareness of the pending change and their sentiments toward it. Their Strategy Lead led presentations and strategy sessions to help craft focused messaging in the next recruiting cycle.

Overcoming Less Desirable Locations

A Fortune 100 CPG company struggled to recruit tech and diverse students to its headquarters given its non-desirable location. Veris Insights armed the recruiting team with data to level-set with internal stakeholders and identified winning factors to emphasize to overcome location concerns.

Strategically Redirected Marketing Budget

Veris Insights uncovered a bank’s misspent advertising budget. Despite high expenses and team time dedicated to a social media strategy, the ads played poorly with students. Veris Insights data convinced employer branding leaders to reposition efforts and dollars into more favorable channels.

Building a More Inclusive Internship

Veris Insights identified a poor sense of belonging among a Fortune 200 MedTech company’s internship. Data cut by race and gender convinced leaders to support an extensive ERG mentorship program. Belonging and inclusion rating–and conversion–increased the following summer.

Sell Strategies by Candidate Profile

Veris Insights provided a Fortune 300 financial services firm with one-pagers for each of its major candidate profiles. That way, when a recruiter or hiring manager was speaking to women tech students, they knew precisely which proven talking points to focus on and how to overcome objections.

Supporting EVP Across the Enterprise

A Fortune 150 tech company was redeveloping its EVP. Veris Insights leveraged its existing EVP survey instrument frameworks and custom member inputs to study its employer brand amongst campus and experienced talent, delivering detailed, actionable briefs.

This spring, we’ve got almost 100 Dell employees and mentees matched! Using that Veris Insights data to turn this program into a reality was a no-brainer.

There was a report where students were being asked what they like to get from a company in terms of engagement and students said that they wanted mentorship the most but they also said they weren’t getting mentorship at all. So we said, let’s draw that line…connect those dots.

Jennifer Jones Newbill
Director Emerging Talent
Dell Technologies

Our return offer acceptance rate has increased from 70% to 94% in the four years since we’ve been working with [Veris Insights].

Member
University Recruiting Council

Veris Insights helped us a lot in being able to elevate and create our Latinx Explore Program. A lot of the insights that we took – from understanding how to engage student groups, how to engage the faculty and staff, how to overlay the technology – all went into us doing an event that was a great success and that we’re going to continue to offer.

It was Veris that helped us feel very confident in our approach.

DaJuan Lucas
Early Talent Lead Manager - Emerging Talent & Diversity Recruiting Strategy
Vanguard

Veris Insights really helped us on leading with data and being able to go to the hiring leaders and share with them what we’re hearing in the market from a candidate perspective.

Stacy Richter
Senior VP - GIB Head of Recruiting
Baird

The information that Veris Insights shares out has been valuable to me and my team. The information has helped us with our engagement strategy, evaluation of our core universities, and restructuring my team.

Member
University Recruiting Council

[Our Service Lead] has been on point as it relates to topics we discuss and can easily adjust in the moment if we bring up unplanned topics or questions. This helps bring value to our monthly conversations.

Member
University Recruiting Council

We have a small program in a big organization and are in serious build mode so the research and benchmarking is imperative for our internal conversations with leaders.

Member
University Recruiting Council

Member connections and employer benchmarking have been invaluable… We’ve used it for defense or validation points of our practices, evidence for change, and to help set aspirational goals. We’ve also been able to build off multiple toolkits and resources to update our internal materials like intern performance management, communications toolkits, etc.

Member
University Recruiting Council

The benchmarking information is invaluable to us as an organization… Understanding what the norms / best practices are to keep our programs competitive is not only valuable but absolutely necessary.”

Member
University Recruiting Council

Enjoy complimentary early talent insights.

4X

Return On Investment

On average, Veris Insights members report 4X ROI on their investment in our membership. 30% of members report 5X or more.

280+

Member Organizations

Veris Insights supports University Recruiting and Talent Acquisition leaders from more than 280 employers through our research memberships and services.

50K+

Interviews & Surveys

Each year, Veris Insights interviews and surveys tens of thousands of candidates to serve our members.

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