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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.

Recruitment in an Evolving Graduate Enrollment 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 new 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

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

Every year, recruitment strategies become more complex, and recruitment tools are more abundant. The GRE 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 GRE 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, as well as tips to maximize its effectiveness.

Join Jay Bryant and Mary Theresa Taglang, two former admissions and recruiting directors, for Ready, Set, Recruit: A tactical approach to identifying your next class with the GRE^® 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 GRE Search Service filters that meet your budget and strategic plans
Identify key messaging that speaks to the candidates you find in the GRE Search Service
Review your current tactics to ensure they align with your needs

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

The Shorter GRE: Your Questions Answered

As the result of a renewed and focused effort at ETS to ensure that learners and educators are at the center of all we do, we are making some big changes to the GRE General Test and want you to be the first to know. The GRE test will continue to measure the same skills and maintain the strong quality and security you expect, with valid and reliable scores for confident decision making.

Importantly, the score scales will remain the same so you can easily compare performance across individuals who test before and after September 2023.

Beginning September 22, 2023, testing time will be reduced by half, from nearly four hours to just under two, and the official score turnaround time will reduce from 10–15 days to 8–10 days.

Combined, these changes are intended to provide test takers with a better experience that values their time and reduces anxiety and fatigue, ultimately helping them to complete and submit their applications more quickly.

Join our GRE Program team as we give an overview of the changes and available resources and answer your questions.

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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