Right now we’re excited to announce the launch of the Roblox Profession Middle — 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 folks come collectively.
Eliminating geographical boundaries and showcasing our platform
We consider crucial product we’re constructing shouldn’t be Roblox the platform, however Roblox the corporate — the individuals who are available in every single day to assist advance our mission to attach a billion folks with optimism and civility. Our innovation is simply doable by constructing a workforce that embodies a broad vary of abilities, views, and backgrounds.
Whereas supreme from an engagement standpoint, conventional in-person recruiting has its limitations. There are solely so many universities and potential candidates that our recruiting staff can interact with in individual. The Roblox Profession Middle permits us to succeed in early profession candidates internationally — eliminating geographic constraints from the recruiting course of and avoiding all that’s missing in static recruiting approaches, equivalent to internet pages and video conferencing conferences. It additionally highlights all the pieces that makes our platform a singular vacation spot for human connection and communication: interactivity, self-expression, and immersion. What higher method 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 method to expertise recruiting
Throughout the expertise, candidates can be taught extra concerning the advanced technical challenges we’re tackling and the innovation we’re driving via immersive occasions, podcasts, and conversations with Roblox workers. This can be a new method for us to introduce what it’s wish to work right here, whereas serving to candidates turn into acquainted with our platform.
“We determined to construct this expertise particularly for candidates who’re simply beginning out their careers, lots of whom are already acquainted with our platform from after they performed on Roblox as they had been rising up. We predict this can be a nice method 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 acquainted with 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 straightforward and easy as doable. Guests simply studying about Roblox can head to the Innovation Lab the place they’ll study our modern product roadmap and hearken to tales straight from our workers.
Subsequent, guests can take a look at the Podcast Lounge, the place they’ll hearken to clips of our Tech Talks Podcasts, hosted by Roblox Co-founder & CEO Dave Baszucki, as he and particular friends 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 collection of books and different studying supplies to overview as they put together for his or her interviews. Now we have crafted a one-stop store of knowledge with a variety of matters, together with our historical past, current 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 necessary function in offering an equitable alternative for all candidates, no matter background, to show job related abilities. Candidates can take apply assessments to see what they could expertise throughout their interview course of.
Coming quickly, we’ll be inviting candidates to conduct sure preliminary interviews straight throughout the expertise.
Attend an immersive occasion
In right now’s related world, digital occasions have turn into widespread. Nonetheless, experiencing an occasion in Roblox is way extra immersive. For this 12 months, our focus might be on internet hosting a wide range of digital, immersive occasions within the area. We lately 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 Workforce, 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 utterly totally different to have them expertise these improvements on the platform themselves. The Roblox Profession Middle is a superb instance of how we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s doable on our platform.” – Daniel Sturman, Chief Know-how Officer at Roblox
The brand new Roblox Profession Middle might be another method for us to succeed in high expertise, wherever they’re. Able to test it out for your self? Head to the Roblox Profession Middle to expertise the way forward for recruiting. If you happen to’re serious about studying extra about our open Early Profession roles and how one can apply, you may see our present Intern roles right here and New Graduate, Full Time roles right here. Be certain to go to our Careers website often as we open extra roles this season.