Introducing the Roblox Profession Middle: A brand new solution to expertise recruiting

Right now we’re excited to announce the launch of the Roblox Profession Middle — an expertise immediately on Roblox the place early profession candidates can dive into our immersive platform firsthand and study 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 imagine a very powerful product we’re constructing just 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 potential by constructing a workforce that embodies a broad vary of abilities, views, and backgrounds.

Whereas ultimate from an engagement standpoint, conventional in-person recruiting has its limitations. There are solely so many universities and potential candidates that our recruiting group can have interaction with in individual. The Roblox Profession Middle allows 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, akin to internet pages and video conferencing conferences. It additionally highlights all the things that makes our platform a novel 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 solution to expertise recruiting

Throughout the expertise, candidates can study extra in regards to the complicated technical challenges we’re tackling and the innovation we’re driving by means of immersive occasions, podcasts, and conversations with Roblox staff. It is a new method for us to introduce what it’s wish to work right here, whereas serving to candidates develop into conversant in our platform.

“We determined to construct this expertise particularly for candidates who’re simply beginning out their careers, a lot of whom are already conversant in our platform from after they performed on Roblox as they had been rising up. We predict it is 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 objective is to make it as simple and easy as potential. Guests simply studying about Roblox can head to the Innovation Lab the place they will study our modern product roadmap and hearken to tales immediately from our staff. 

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 visitors 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. We’ve got crafted a one-stop store of data with a variety 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 vital position in offering an equitable alternative for all candidates, no matter background, to reveal job related abilities. Candidates can take observe exams to see what they could expertise throughout their interview course of.

Coming quickly, we’ll be inviting candidates to conduct sure preliminary interviews immediately throughout the expertise. 

Attend an immersive occasion

In at present’s linked world, digital occasions have develop into widespread. Nevertheless, experiencing an occasion in Roblox is much extra immersive. For this yr, our focus will probably be on internet hosting a wide range of digital, immersive occasions within the area. 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 capable of hear not solely extra from Dan and our Early Profession Staff, but additionally to expertise first-hand our modern expertise. 

“It’s one factor to speak about our technical improvements to recruits; it’s one thing utterly completely 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 potential on our platform.” – Daniel Sturman, Chief Know-how Officer at Roblox

The brand new Roblox Profession Middle will probably be yet one more method for us to succeed in prime 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. Should you’re considering studying extra about our open Early Profession roles and how one can apply, you possibly can see our present Intern roles right here and New Graduate, Full Time roles right here. Be positive to go to our Careers web site frequently as we open extra roles this season.