Employee Referral Programme

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Permalink Reply by Paul Jacobs on October 30, 2010 at 13:01

Hi Susan - I will ask the community by broadcast email early next week. Agree with what you said re the prog. Would add some points: 1) determine what motivates your employees re reward - it may not be cash. 2) possibly crowdsource the design of the prog to employees, 3) some progs reward employees after say 3 months if the new recruit is successful on the job (so not necessarily "instantaneous"), 4) build it into the workflow of an ATS if possible, 5) employees can benefit from being trained in how to give a brief / elevator pitch to a colleague, and 6) there are some new referral apps on social networks like Facebook and these look interesting - eg BranchOut - adds weight to encouraging employees to get active on the social web! And one last, slightly edgy idea - build it into an employee's performance / balanced scorecard requirements - eg all employees have to make one successful referral per year.

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Permalink Reply by Susan Wilson on November 1, 2010 at 22:01

Thanks Paul, Branch Out loooks very interesting. Have also been speaking Avature which looks like a great web crawler that integrates with our ATS.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Beeley on November 10, 2010 at 14:57

That sounds like the right approach Susan - keep it simple for the referrer but make sure you have the right marketing in place.
We have managed many ERPs in our time, and have a guide on the topic if you're interested. Have attached it.

Mike Beeley
Reagent Employer Marketing

Attachments:

• Reagent Rant No 1 ERP.pdf, 439 KB

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Permalink Reply by Kelly O'Shaughnessy on November 10, 2010 at 15:37

Nice document. Especially like the point about you deciding where your ERP sits on the cost-per-hire scale. So true.

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Permalink Reply by Kelly O'Shaughnessy on November 10, 2010 at 15:35

Hi Susan, hope you're well!

Easy, instantaneous, and... cut the barriers. The more exclusive an employee referral program is, the harder it is to promote and gain acceptance by the employee population. So making sure that anyone and everyone is eligible in some way to be rewarded for referring talent that you would otherwise have been unaware of is very important. Sometimes this is tough to get across the board, but the more employees you open your program up to, the better the results will be.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Turnbull on November 27, 2010 at 13:41

A very timely post...

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