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EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING

‘We’re Sharing Our Values’

Senior University Relations Specialist Grows Company
Reputation by Recruiting at New Colleges, HBCUs

In 2024, Senior University Relations Specialist Stanley Stiles saw firsthand that the old adage “Teamwork makes the dream
work” couldn’t be more accurate. “I am working with all divisions, and all divisions are working with me,” Stiles said.
“We are all working as ONE and helping each other
wherever we are needed to make sure we are recruiting
the best of the best in universities across the country.”

As the first person to hold the University Relations
Specialist position at Martin Marietta, Stiles’s main role is
to connect with soon-to-graduate college students and
recruit them for various roles throughout the enterprise.
Stiles joined Martin Marietta in 2021 and stepped into his
current role in the first half of 2023. Now, in his second
year of leading this charge, he is excited to see how the
team has contributed; namely, across the entire company,
various recruiting teams have been involved in
90 recruitment events.

While Martin Marietta has long recruited talented
candidates from schools with strong mining and
engineering programs, Stiles says that a key focus since
2023 has been expanding the breadth of the company’s
college recruitment efforts to target universities with
strong programs in business, accounting, and other
Stanley Stiles,
University Relations Specialist disciplines that help a large company thrive.

“For a long time, we focused our recruiting at a few core
schools where we experienced positive outcomes, which is
great. We’ll continue to visit those schools often and build
upon our relationships there,” he says. “I’ve tried to
expand that success into other schools as well. That’s how
you grow this type of program.”

The list of schools visited in 2023 and 2024 included
several historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs)
and Hispanic-serving institutions; Stiles has attended career
events at Florida A&M University, North Carolina A&T State
University, and Morgan State University—all schools where
Martin Marietta did not previously have a significant
presence.

“The HBCUs we’ve been building relationships with are
some of the strongest schools in the country,” Stiles says.
“Many of the students we’re meeting seem like a great fit
for us. They’re looking for a place where they can develop
their skills and grow their careers.”
Management Associate
Samantha Mitchell

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