Gerry Crispin, who with Mark Mehler runs the CareerXroads consultancy, sent over some new stats on employee referrals. CareerXroads surveyed 56 large, well-known employers about their employee referral programs.
More data from the study’s coming up in your November Journal of Corporate Recruiting Leadership.
For now, a couple of interesting graphs (click to enlarge).
First is a breakdown of the percentage of jobs being filled by referrals (albeit from a fairly small sample).
And, here’s a look at how many referrals it takes to yield one hire.