Don’t have an Employee Referral Program? You Should!

Many recruiters and other HR professionals say that referrals are their best employees. Thus, if you are wondering why should you use an Employee Referral Program, the benefits are numerous. Employee Referrals are proven to be improve some of the most important HR metrics such as time, cost and quality of hire.

Why using Employee Referrals?

Let’s say you are looking for a perfect candidate for your newly opened position. You have identified your candidate persona and wrote a perfect job description, posted the opening on your favorite job boards and shared it on social networks…

These days, when more than 70% of people are passive candidates, this method is not sufficient.

Here are a few stats:

• 88% of employers say employee referrals are the #1 source of ‘above average candidates according to D. John Sulivan
• Referred workers are up to 30% less likely to quit according to study from UC Berkley
• Employee referrals are the #1 source of hire by volume according to Career Xroads
• A referred candidate is faster to hire than a traditional candidate
• An average employee has 150 social friends which makes a status/update of a 100 people company seen by 15 000 people

That being said, let’s look at the 3 biggest benefits of the employee referral:

1. Cost per hire — If you compare the price of the traditional ways, cost of getting your own people to refer the candidate is much cheaper. As many of them are working and talking to similar kind of workers, you are making your own employees perfect recruiters.
2. Employer branding — with the right motivation (rewards) you will make your employees more engaged and happy to help, expanding the number of shares and views on, for example, social networks.
3. Quality of hire — after you decide on a profile of your perfect candidate looks you will actually reach more of passive candidates this way and faster to the high quality active ones who are searching for a job at that particular moment.

Need ideas for employee referral rewards? Here is the list of 50 most popular ideas for employee referral rewards.

Start planning and organizing your own program today, and I can promise you, you will see a big improvement in your recruiting and hiring strategy, and become a more successful recruiter.

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