Hiring Hacks: How Formlabs Designed a Growth-Centered Internship Program
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With great growth comes great responsibility. Some companies add to their headcount at a blistering pace, only to have to let people go when the funding runs out. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Boston-based 3D printing startup Formlabs found a way to grow their company from 10 to 140 people in 3 years. One of the keys to their success was a robust internship program. The People Operations team at Formlabs consists of only three full-cycle recruiters, but everyone at the company is empowered to source, hire, and manage interns, making this a truly unique program. In this Hiring Hacks, Virginia White, head of People Operations at Formlabs, shares how Formlabs built an internship program that converted to full-time employees at a rate of 50% during its first two years, increased employer brand awareness of Formlabs in the local community, and led to some of the most productive periods of achievement in the company’s history.
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Hiring Hacks: How Formlabs Designed a Growth-Centered Internship Program
- 1. GREENHOUSE.IO + HACKERRANK How Formlabs Designed a Growth- Centered Internship Program
- 2. GREENHOUSE + #HIRINGHACKS Today’s Moderators Casey Marshall Greenhouse Lauren Maroevich HackerRank GREENHOUSE + ENTELO #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK
- 3. GREENHOUSE + What is Greenhouse? • Greenhouse is an end-to-end solution that optimizes your entire recruiting process • Talent is critical for building outstanding companies • World-class recruiting requires focused effort across your entire organization #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK
- 4. Hiring Hacks • Each webinar in the series focuses on strategies and tools that help measurably improve the recruiting process • In this Hiring Hacks, Greenhouse partnered with HackerRank & Formlabs to discuss: • Several benefits of creating an internship program • How to structure and build an internship program – from the ground up • Creative methods for sourcing and vetting interns • Strategies for adapting your internship program to your company’s stage of growth GREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK #HIRINGHACKS
- 7. GREENHOUSE + Speaker Highlight Virginia White People Operations @ Formlabs Virginia joined Formlabs in October 2012 when the team was just 10 people and a few tables in a small co-working space. Three years later, she has grown Formlabs into a 22,000 square foot office with headcount of 150 (and still counting)! #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + ENTELO #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK
- 8. • Benefits to building out an internship program in your organization • How to start from the beginning • How to build and maintain a stronger program as you grow • How to discover, recruit, and screen great interns year after year Topics #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK
- 9. Why have interns? • Soak up the energizing effect • projects & focus • culture & community #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK
- 10. 10 • Build the pipeline for future hires Why have interns?
- 11. • Sneak in some leadership training Why have interns? #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK
- 12. • Beta test strategies for scaling your organization • space • projects • recruiting • onboarding Why have interns? #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK
- 13. GREENHOUSE + #HIRINGHACKS • Treat interns like full time employees • Excitement • Responsibility • Autonomy • Trust • Pay How to start? #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK
- 14. 14 • Take time to define work and scope (1-5 projects) How to start?
- 15. 15 • Give meaningful work How to start?
- 16. GREENHOUSE + #HIRINGHACKS • Set mentorship expectations How to maintain (and grow)! #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK
- 17. GREENHOUSE + 17 Plan an intern-to-hire program • Transparency • Defined check-in points • Collect meaningful feedback How to maintain (and grow)! #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK
- 18. GREENHOUSE + 18 • Hire someone to run the program! • former interns are great How to maintain (and grow)! #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK
- 19. • Leverage your network early on Finding the best #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK
- 20. #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK • Go beyond the career fair • clubs, hackathons • host meetups, give talks • get all interviewers involved Finding the best
- 21. GREENHOUSE + 21#HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK • Capture intern experiences • Ethan’s Field Report • Meet Ben Katz • Meet Jacob Haip Finding the best
- 22. Use good tools and resourcesFinding the best #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK • Expand your reach • Move quickly • Hire earlier
- 23. • Plan August • Start September • Hire October - November When to start? #HIRINGHACKSGREENHOUSE + HACKERRANK
- 24. Questions
Editor's Notes
- Hello everyone, thank you for joining us in our 3rd Hiring Hacks webinar of 2016! Let me quickly go ahead and introduce who you will be hearing from today... Today’s Moderators are myself, Casey Marshall and Lauren Maroevich our wonderful partner over at HackerRank. Before we dive into this webinar, I’d like to quickly go over some house keeping items. Today's session will be recorded, and a link to the recording will be sent to you via email later this week. ALSO we love questions, so feel free to submit them in the Q&A box throughout the webinar, and Leslie will answer them at the end.
- So you’re attending this webinar presented by Greenhouse but what is Greenhouse exactly? Greenhouse is an end-to-end solution that optimizes your entire recruiting process. A few points that we believe: #1 Talent is critical for building outstanding companies. Companies now recognize that finding the best talent is key to driving business success. You can have a great product or service but without top talent, it will be difficult to succeed in a competitive marketplace #2 World-Class recruiting requires focused effort across your entire organization. Companies that have done well at recruiting have made it a company wide focus and priority. Best practices have existed for years but companies often don’t have the tools or process-EEs to allow them to execute them
- What is exactly Hiring Hacks? Each webinar in the series focuses on strategies and tools that help measurably improve the recruiting process In this Hiring Hacks, Greenhouse partnered with Entelo & Under Armour to discuss: Tips to align your recruiting strategies with your product roadmap How to make sense of the data you’ve gathered How to differentiate your employee value proposition with personalized messaging Which metrics recruiters should be tracking Now, I’d like to pass it onto Kathleen as she’ll provide a bit of insight into what Entelo does as well as introduce our talented speaker for the day!
- At the end of the day, HackerRank is a platform that supports your tech hiring end-to-end, in the three places that matter most to recruiters: sourcing, screening, and interviewing. For sourcing, we host CodeSprint competitions, which are basically online hackathons that attract thousands of passionate programmers from around the world. When they’re done competing, recruiters get a stack-ranked list of all the competitors and what their scores were so you can reach out to recruit them. For screening, we’re a platform built on the concept of CodeChallenges, which are essentially word problems that candidates solve in code. You work with your engineers to create CodeChallenges that relate to your open roles, then you send them to candidates to solve on their own time. When they’re done, you’ll get an auto-scored report that shows you exactly how well they did. This makes picking who to interview objective and easy. When you’ve got some standout candidates from the screening process, you can then use our CodePair feature to interview them. CodePair combines a live CodeChallenge and a webcam session, so that hiring managers and engineers can interact directly with a candidate while they code. This gives them great insight into both their programming aptitude and their personality, to see if they’d be a good culture fit.
- HackerRank works for many reasons, but four of the most important are: Keep your funnel packed with passionate developers using CodeSprints or Company Pages, which are your direct pipeline to HackerRank’s community of over one million developers. Create a strategic talent advantage for yourself by spending time with candidates you may have otherwise overlooked based on their resume when they perform well on your CodeChallenges. Make sure your engineers spend their time doing what they love- coding- by ensuring that they only spend time interviewing candidates who meet your quality bar. And finally, when you combine all of these benefits, you’ll see a huge positive impact on your tech hiring. You’ll reduce your time to hire, increase your onsite to offer ratio, save yourself and your engineers a ton of time and money, and ultimately, build an amazing tech team in the process.
- Virginia joined Formlabs in October 2012 when the team was just 10 people and a few tables in a small co-working space. Three years later, she has grown Formlabs into a 22,000 square foot office with headcount of 150 (and still counting)! She currently leads People Operations (recruiting, onboarding, and culture) with an amazing team of five who keep everything humming and growing. Before joining Formlabs, Virginia spent several years helping artists and entrepreneurs launch their own business -- so it's fair to say that Formlabs is definitely the largest company she's ever worked with! In her spare time, she moonlights as a yoga instructor. Virginia – now take it away!