At present we’re excited to announce the launch of the Roblox Profession Heart — an expertise straight on Roblox the place early profession candidates can dive into our immersive platform firsthand and be taught what it’s wish to be part of an organization that’s reimagining the way in which individuals come collectively.
Eliminating geographical boundaries and showcasing our platform
We consider an important product we’re constructing just isn’t Roblox the platform, however Roblox the corporate — the individuals who are available in each day to assist advance our mission to attach a billion individuals with optimism and civility. Our innovation is barely potential by constructing a workforce that embodies a broad vary of expertise, views, and backgrounds.
Whereas superb from an engagement standpoint, conventional in-person recruiting has its limitations. There are solely so many universities and potential candidates that our recruiting workforce can have interaction with in particular person. The Roblox Profession Heart allows us to achieve early profession candidates the world over — eliminating geographic constraints from the recruiting course of and avoiding all that’s missing in static recruiting approaches, reminiscent of net pages and video conferencing conferences. It additionally highlights every thing that makes our platform a singular vacation spot for human connection and communication: interactivity, self-expression, and immersion. What higher approach for candidates to know what they could be engaged on than to expertise options, like spatial audio and the power to animate avatars with motion, proper inside our recruiting expertise.
A brand new technique to expertise recruiting
Throughout the expertise, candidates can be taught extra concerning the complicated technical challenges we’re tackling and the innovation we’re driving by means of immersive occasions, podcasts, and conversations with Roblox workers. It is a new approach for us to introduce what it’s wish to work right here, whereas serving to candidates turn out to be aware of our platform.
“We determined to construct this expertise particularly for candidates who’re simply beginning out their careers, a lot of whom are already aware of our platform from once they performed on Roblox as they had been rising up. We expect it is a nice technique to showcase the Roblox platform and assist candidates visualize themselves working right here.” – Ryan Fitzpatrick, Senior Director, Early Profession Expertise at Roblox
Navigating the expertise
Whereas some candidates are aware of Roblox, for a lot of, this would be the first time that they’ll enter right into a Roblox expertise. Our aim is to make it as simple and simple as potential. Guests simply studying about Roblox can head to the Innovation Lab the place they will study our modern product roadmap and take heed to tales straight from our workers.
Subsequent, guests can take a look at the Podcast Lounge, the place they will take heed to clips of our Tech Talks Podcasts, hosted by Roblox Co-founder & CEO Dave Baszucki, as he and particular company discover the technical challenges and modern concepts we’re engaged on.
Put together for an interview
We help our candidates all through every step of the interview course of, beginning with preparation supplies. Within the Library, guests can discover a curated choice of books and different studying supplies to overview as they put together for his or her interviews. We have now crafted a one-stop store of data with a spread of matters, together with our historical past, latest improvements, our philosophy and method to interviewing, and a information on what to anticipate all through the interview course of.
We even have a room devoted to our problem-solving assessments. Over the previous a number of years, these assessments have performed an essential position in offering an equitable alternative for all candidates, no matter background, to reveal job related expertise. Candidates can take apply exams to see what they could expertise throughout their interview course of.
Coming quickly, we’ll be inviting candidates to conduct sure preliminary interviews straight inside the expertise.
Attend an immersive occasion
In in the present day’s related world, digital occasions have turn out to be widespread. Nevertheless, experiencing an occasion in Roblox is much extra immersive. For this 12 months, our focus shall be on internet hosting a wide range of digital, immersive occasions within the area. We not too long ago hosted our first occasion with Roblox CTO Dan Sturman, the place he shared his journey to Roblox and his imaginative and prescient for its future. We hosted over 85 college students within the expertise, the place they had been capable of hear not solely extra from Dan and our Early Profession Group, but in addition to expertise first-hand our modern know-how.
“It’s one factor to speak about our technical improvements to recruits; it’s one thing fully completely different to have them expertise these improvements on the platform themselves. The Roblox Profession Heart is a superb instance of how we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s potential on our platform.” – Daniel Sturman, Chief Know-how Officer at Roblox
The brand new Roblox Profession Heart shall be another approach for us to achieve prime expertise, wherever they’re. Able to test it out for your self? Head to the Roblox Profession Heart to expertise the way forward for recruiting. When you’re focused on studying extra about our open Early Profession roles and how one can apply, you’ll be able to see our present Intern roles right here and New Graduate, Full Time roles right here. Be positive to go to our Careers website recurrently as we open extra roles this season.