Navigating the job market straight out of college can be daunting. Employers are often looking for experienced applicants to fill their job openings but to gain the right mix of skills and hands-on training to make them an enticing hire, early career professionals need an employer to take a chance on them. These companies are hiring new grads through initiatives that engage them in mentorship, networking, job rotations and other career development opportunities.
Companies Hiring New Grads
- UL Solutions
- MobilityWare
- Netflix
- Capital One
- Chevron
- Oracle
- Epsilon
Companies Hiring New Grads
Golden Hippo works in marketing strategy to help build beauty, health and pet care brands. It aims to help brands reach consumers through online or direct mail advertising campaigns, targeted email marketing and direct response marketing. The company has paid internship programs with summer, fall and spring sessions, and offers many associate-level positions that it deems fit for new grads.
Grand Studio offers research, strategy and design services to support custom digital product development for client organizations across industries like food and healthcare. Grand Studio has an internship program that provides students with experience and training and can lead to full-time employment.
PatientPoint makes digital tools that doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers use to inform, educate and communicate with patients, like waiting-room screens with customized healthcare content, engagement platforms for doctor-patient communication and patient acquisition tools. To attract rising college seniors and recent grads, the company operates an intern onboarding program that speeds them through initial training and prepares them to create an intern capstone project under direct mentorship from senior leaders.
The Kraft Heinz Company is responsible for producing well-known food and beverage brands like Oscar Mayer, Capri-Sun, Kool-Aid, Ore-Ida and Lunchables. It offers immersive internship opportunities that provide participants with real-world experience, as well as trainee programs that prepare participants for full-time roles with Kraft Heinz in areas such as manufacturing and research and development. The company also has programs that give MBA students a chance to begin transitioning into leadership careers.
Mondelez International is a multinational food and beverage company that focuses on snacks like crackers, cookies, candy and powdered drinks. The company’s early-career programs include apprenticeships, graduate programs, internships and traineeships, each of which is designed to nurture recent college graduates’ skills and grow them into full-fledged members of the team.
Bullhorn’s software helps staffing and recruitment agencies improve their productivity. Bullhorn’s early-career opportunities include remote and hybrid internships. The company also partners with Code Differently and Tech Elevator, both of which provide training and education to enable access to technology careers.
Magna International engineers and manufactures hardware and software systems for the automotive industry. The company offers internship opportunities and full-time jobs for professionals who are fresh out of college. Magna International also has co-op programs that provide job experience for students who are finishing degrees.
Celonis provides businesses in industries such as banking, retail, utilities, manufacturing and healthcare with process mining technology to help them access actionable intelligence. To support career opportunities for recent graduates, Celonis offers the 12-month Galaxy Graduate Program for developing product experts and the Orbit Graduate Program to give entry-level sales engineers hands-on experience.
The HEICO Companies is a holding corporation that operates companies across the aerospace, manufacturing, construction and industrial sectors. Its long list of companies include Davis Wire, which makes steel wire products, Titan Formwork Systems, which makes shoring equipment for construction and Ancra Aircraft, an aerospace cargo systems company. Heico has a thriving internship program and regularly recruits recent grads to join its ranks.
UL Solutions is an internationally-recognized name in safety science that “transforms safety, security, and sustainability challenges into opportunities” for businesses across industries such as construction, oil and gas, healthcare, retail and consumer electronics. The company’s job opportunities include postings for recent graduates as well as internships in career areas like engineering, sales, data and product management.
Snap integrates photography with communication services and social media through its popular Snapchat app. Users can share videos, images and messages that disappear after a short time, creating a dynamic and engaging way to connect. The app also includes My AI, a chatbot powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, enhancing user interaction with features like trivia, travel suggestions and gift ideas. The company has a robust internship program and regularly hires new grads.
DraftKings is a mobile gaming company that creates betting experiences to cater to competitive sports fans. The company’s products include DraftKings Sportsbook which is live with mobile and retail sports betting operations in several states and Ontario, Jackpocket a digital lottery app and a daily fantasy sports product available in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.
McCain Foods is a multinational company in the food and beverage space. The signature McCain product is frozen fries and specialty potato products, with more than one million pounds of potato products processed every hour in manufacturing plants around the world. The company attracts recent college grads with competitive comp packages and strong mentorship programs.
Chevron is an energy company that manufactures and retails refined oil and gas products, including diesel, gasoline, aviation and marine fuel, lubricants and fuel oil additives. The company has two training tracks for recent grads of undergraduate and graduate programs, respectively. Individuals with an undergraduate degree can gain training via Horizons, an early career mentorship program that covers job fields including petroleum engineering, information technology, procurement and supply chain management.
Netflix is the entertainment company that made streaming mainstream. Offering movies, television, gaming and educational programming through a subscription model, the company also produces its own content. The Netflix New Grad Program hires recent graduates and places them in technical and business roles across the company while providing robust onboarding, professional development, technical education, mentorship and networking opportunities.
Liberty Mutual is a longstanding American insurance provider that offers automotive, property and many other types of insurance policies to both individuals and other businesses. The company eagerly hires and mentors new grads and operates several internship programs designed to support college students and recent alumni through their transition to the full-time workplace.
Epsilon is a marketing tech company that uses data to personalize marketing assets and customer experiences. Part of the company’s commitment to nurturing team members as they grow in their careers is its early career programs, which recruit and develop new talent by offering robust, immersive training. The company runs an internship program and a New Grad Program that onboards new graduates with eight weeks of paid group skills training in preparation for transitioning them into their job duties.
Oracle is a tech company that deals in database software and cloud computing. One of the largest software companies in the world, more than 400,000 customers use Oracle’s products and services, including major enterprises such as Samsung and Marriott. The company’s Class Of program prepares recent grads with business fundamentals training and job-specific skills training in sales, solution engineering or consulting.
MobilityWare is a California-based gaming company that specializes in bringing players card and puzzle games. Its career opportunities include internships to foster student talent as well as positions that cover a range of experience levels. Because of its benefits offerings, like flexible PTO and tuition reimbursement, and its goal of fostering a supportive culture, MobilityWare has received repeated recognition as a top place to work.
Tufin is a software company that makes cybersecurity tools. Its cloud software is used in automating security policy for client networks, which it secures through strategies of firewall management, network segmentation, compliance automation and risk assessment. As client companies use cloud software, the inherent vulnerabilities of these processes can be mitigated by stacking them with Tufin products to protect against data breaches and cybercrime. The company currently has several entry-level positions open and welcomes recent grads.
Reveneer leverages outbound sales expertise, data and technology to help its clients overcome business challenges and implement effective sales strategies. The company offers entry-level positions for sales development representatives who are willing to learn and have strong communication skills.
OTR Solutions is a factoring company, which means it buys unpaid or delinquent invoices at a discount from companies that are waiting on payment for goods, assumes the debt itself and then secures payment. For merchants, working with a factoring company makes cash accessible. OTR makes fintech tools to support this process, like payment processing software for the trucking industry. It proudly hires early-career applicants, including those with zero experience, as long as they are high-energy team players with the desire to learn and excellent collaboration and communication skills.
SRAM is a bicycle component manufacturer with an international footprint. Its portfolio of brands includes RockShox, Quarq and TIME. The company hires interns who work on specific projects they get to present at the end of the program, and participants have the opportunity to network with other employees and senior leadership.
Capital One is a financial services company that offers credit cards, checking and savings accounts, loans and other traditional banking services. Capital One recruits promising new talent straight out of college, setting them up with two-year rotational programs that start them as full-time associates but move them from role to role within the company to allow them to find their niche.
IMC is a trading firm that leverages advanced research and technology to trade globally. Founded in 1989, IMC has grown to over 1,600 employees across many offices, including Chicago, Illinois; Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Mumbai, India. The company is always looking for entry-level employees and interns to join its team as it continues to expand.
Mirakl offers a suite of tools for e-commerce growth and optimization, including the Mirakl Platform for creating marketplaces, Mirakl Payout for secure seller payments and Mirakl Target2Sell for AI-driven product recommendations. The company’s scalable solutions help B2B and B2C companies manage third-party marketplaces, automate processes, and fuel digital growth. Mirakl is on the lookout for new grads interested in joining its sales team as business development representatives.
Vertafore is a software company that makes products for the insurance sector. Its digital tools are built for insurance brokers, carriers, agencies and other industry professionals, and work by facilitating and optimizing essential processes like quoting, credentialing and compliance. The company supports new grads through technical training and mentorship programs that connect new hires with seasoned mentors.
