At the moment 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 prefer to be part of an organization that’s reimagining the best way folks come collectively.
Eliminating geographical boundaries and showcasing our platform
We imagine crucial product we’re constructing isn’t Roblox the platform, however Roblox the corporate — the individuals who are available on daily basis to assist advance our mission to attach a billion folks with optimism and civility. Our innovation is just doable by constructing a workforce that embodies a broad vary of abilities, views, and backgrounds.
Whereas preferrred 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 interact with in individual. 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, resembling internet pages and video conferencing conferences. It additionally highlights all the things 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 might be engaged on than to expertise options, like spatial audio and the flexibility to animate avatars with motion, proper inside our recruiting expertise.
A brand new solution 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 prefer to work right here, whereas serving to candidates grow to be conversant in our platform.
“We determined to construct this expertise particularly for candidates who’re simply beginning out their careers, lots of whom are already conversant in our platform from after they performed on Roblox as they had been rising up. We predict this can be a nice solution 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 conversant in 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 simple as doable. Guests simply studying about Roblox can head to the Innovation Lab the place they will study our revolutionary product roadmap and hearken to tales straight from our workers.
Subsequent, guests can try the Podcast Lounge, the place they will 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 revolutionary 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 evaluation as they put together for his or her interviews. We’ve got crafted a one-stop store of data with a spread of subjects, 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 necessary function in offering an equitable alternative for all candidates, no matter background, to display job related abilities. Candidates can take follow assessments to see what they might 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 as we speak’s related world, digital occasions have grow to be widespread. Nonetheless, 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 house. We just 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 in a position to hear not solely extra from Dan and our Early Profession Staff, but additionally to expertise first-hand our revolutionary expertise.
“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 good instance of how we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s doable on our platform.” – Daniel Sturman, Chief Expertise 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. In case you’re interested by 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 positive to go to our Careers website commonly as we open extra roles this season.
