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Ready, Set Recruit: A Tactical Approach to Identifying Your Next Class with the Graduate Search Service

Every year, recruitment strategies become more complex, and recruitment tools are more abundant. The Graduate Search Service – which schools can use regardless of their GRE score use policy – has helped thousands of graduate and professional programs find students who match their recruitment goals.

Whether the Graduate Search Service is new to you or you are a seasoned user, you can benefit from this quick tour of the service’s most valuable features and benefits, and tips to maximize its effectiveness.

Join Jay Bryant, former admissions and recruiting director, for Ready, Set, Recruit: A tactical approach to identifying your next class with the Graduate Search Service— a free webinar that will walk you through the steps, strategies and best practices of using the service.

In this session, you will:

Discover how to target candidates based on the goals of your school/program
Build Graduate Search Service filters that meet your budget and strategic plans
Identify key messaging that speaks to the candidates you find in the Graduate Search Service
Review your current tactics to ensure they align with your needs

Recruit Smarter with the Graduate Enrollment Matching Service (GEMs)

Grow graduate enrollment—without paying for leads that don’t convert.

Join us for a 30-minute webinar on May 13 to explore the Graduate Enrollment Matching Service (GEMS), a collaboration between ETS and Noodle. GEMS helps graduate programs connect with high-intent prospective students through a performance-based model — so you only pay when a student enrolls.

Whether you're looking to expand capacity, improve efficiency, or boost enrollment outcomes, this session will show you how GEMS can support your goals.

What you’ll learn:

The GEMS Model: How it works with the Graduate Search Service to precisely target and engage prospective students
Integration: Streamlining setup with your current systems
Optimizing Your Recruitment Ecosystem: Strategies to improve reach and efficiency
Understanding Your ROI: How to measure impact and return on investment

There will also be time for live Q&A with GEMS experts.

Can’t make it live? Register anyway and we’ll send you the recording

Graduate Search Service: Recurring Orders & Platform Enhancements

Join us for a 30-minute webinar where we will dive deep into how to optimize the benefits of the Graduate Search Service platform. This session is designed to help you maximize the platform's features, enabling you to streamline your recruitment efforts and stay ahead of the curve.

Optimize Recurring Orders: Discover how to set up and manage recurring orders efficiently to ensure seamless and timely candidate sourcing.
Explore the Latest Updates to the Graduate Search Service Platform: Gain insights into how AI-powered list building and the new user experience (UX) can enhance your recruitment process, making it faster and more intuitive.
Unlock the Full Potential of GEMS (Graduate Enrollment Matching Service): Take your recruitment efforts even further with GEMS - matching programs with students who’ve opted in through Graduate Search Service and are actively exploring grad school.

This is an opportunity to ask questions, gain valuable insights, and engage with fellow professionals. 

Can't join us live? Register now to receive a link to the recording the day after the event.

Graduate Recruitment in an Evolving Landscape

Graduate enrollment management (GEM) professionals must adjust their recruitment and enrollment strategies in response to the ever-changing enrollment landscape. Join graduate recruitment expert, Dawn Lipker, as she shares the latest data about the graduate education market.

Topics and takeaways include:

Current undergraduate and graduate enrollment data.
Domestic vs international graduate learner trends.
Student and employer perspectives on alternative credentials.
The evolving graduate student learning journey.
Strategies and tools for expanding your applicant pool and increasing engagement.

Discover the ETS Data Manager

We are excited to offer you a special invitation to explore the ETS Data Manager (EDM), a free innovative tool designed to streamline the management of your GRE and TOEFL score data. Whether you're a Lead Administrator or a Secondary User, EDM provides invaluable support in effectively organizing, tracking, and securely accessing score reports.

Webinar Highlights:

Easy Access: Manage your GRE and TOEFL scores effortlessly.
Integration/Automation: Seamlessly integrate score data with your institution's systems or receive score data directly through automated server-to-server feeds.
Enhanced Features: View test-taker photos, GRE essays, and listen to TOEFL speech samples.

Space is limited— secure your spot now to ensure you don't miss out!

We look forward to showing you how the ETS Data Manager can simplify your score management tasks. See you there!

Graduate Recruitment in an Evolving Landscape: Data and Strategies for the Future of Grad Enrollment

Graduate enrollment management (GEM) professionals must adjust their recruitment and enrollment strategies in response to the ever-changing enrollment landscape. Join graduate enrollment experts Dawn Lipker from ETS, Savon Sampson, and Jennie Bailey from EAB, as they share new data and strategies to support sustainable graduate education.

Topics and takeaways include:

Enrollment Trends
Student Mobility
Outlook on Graduate Education
GRE Search Service
Live Q&A

Search Strategies: Real Stories from Real Users

Every year, recruitment strategies become more complex, and recruitment tools are more abundant. The GRE^® Search Service — a powerful database you can use even if you don’t use GRE scores — can help you find students who are a good fit for your program. The GRE Search service has helped thousands of graduate and professional programs find students who match their recruitment goals.

If you want to know how best to do something, why not go right to the source? Please join ETS student search and recruitment experts for “Search Strategies: Real Stories from Real Users,” as they share tips to improve your applicant search. Plus, current users will share how their student search strategies have been enhanced by using the targeting features of this low-cost, highly effective search platform.

In this engaging session, you will:

Discover how to target candidates based on your program objectives
Explore the GRE Search Service features and benefits that align with your resources and goals
Learn directly from Search Service users how they have leveraged the platform to engage and enroll students
Apply strategic use-cases to your graduate student search process

Whether the GRE Search Service is new to you or you are a seasoned user, these stories from active clients will provide insights and ideas you can use for your own student searches.

A Guide to Holistic Admissions

There's more to holistic admissions than just considering everything an applicant can bring to a program. In this session, learn about the full breadth of practices that promote fairness processes that mitigate bias, and strategies that can help you achieve your enrollment goals.

The Value of the GRE General Test in a Holistic Admissions Process

Each component of the application packet serves a purpose, and each has its imperfections. Join John Augusto (Georgia State University) and Terry Ackerman (University of Iowa) as they take a deep look at the GRE General Test and its role in a holistic admissions process.

Key takeaways:

Get clarification around the purpose and benefits of the GRE General Test
Learn how to interpret GRE scores and how to know whether a difference in two applicants' scores is significant or meaningless
Better understand sources of bias in admissions and the role of GRE scores in helping or hindering bias

GRE Test Prep Workshop for Campus Educators

Join us for a complimentary on-demand GRE Test Preparation workshop. This popular 4-hour session will provide you with information that can help you create your own GRE test preparation workshop for students.

Members of the GRE Program and Assessment Development team who develop the test will present on these topics:

Overview of the GRE Program
Overview of the GRE General Test
Preparing for the Verbal Reasoning Measure
Preparing for the Quantitative Reasoning Measure
Preparing for the Analytical Writing Measure

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