I’ve evaluated H3 and listened in to a Jobster pitch. I am curious if anyone has integrated these third party tools into their ERPs. I’m working with my current boss on a plan to soup up our ERP. I’m struggling with our company culture which is somewhat averse to paying ‘commissions’ to employees and friends of employees for what our management [not my manager, but company management] perceives is ‘HR’s job’.

How have these integrated programs been received? Has anyone paid a referral bonus to an individual who was more than two degrees out from an employee?

- OMB

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As to your point about developing a slogan to inspire internal talent scouts, I always like ‘Ask not what HR can do for you but what you can do for HR!’

Everybody would like more employees to participate, and indeed help the organization score more than 25% results. We think the two most structural impediments for employees to want to participate are A. ‘I don’t know a suitable candidate’ and B. ‘when I ask friends to help me help my employer, it’s hard to motivate them’

Solution for the first problem is to educate employees not just to think about candidates, but think firstly about ‘who do I know who knows lots of people?’ and the for the second problem to allow employees to share their reward equally with their friends, thus forming their own talent scout team!

Of course employers do not want to get involved in tracking, adjucating and disbursing split rewards to non-employees (1099 etc) hence we take care of all of that…