Diversity recruiting has long been a hot topic in the HR community. In recent years, it’s also become one of increasing interest among senior … Read more
How to Cultivate Referrals From Rejected Candidates
Employee referrals are a cornerstone of any sound talent acquisition strategy, especially when upwards of 20%+ of your hires come from referrals. But what … Read more
Collaborative Recruiting — Making ‘Every Employee a Recruiter’ Improves Hiring Results
Top firms use collaborative recruiting because it “turns every employee into a recruiter” and a brand ambassador. Expanding involvement also improves … Read more
Walking Employees Downstream Improves Retention, Productivity, Recruiting, and Engagement (Part 1 of 2)
The Powerful Impacts From Showing Employees That Their Work Is Meaningful Forget engagement survey results. If you really want to kickstart actual hands-on … Read more
Employee Referral Platform Teamable Raises $5 Million, Acquires Simppler
San Francisco-based Teamable, which uses social networks to facilitate employee referrals, has raised $5 million in additional funds and acquired Simppler, … Read more
Employees Excel at Selling Candidates – The Warriors’ ‘Hampton 5 Story’
When it comes to closing top candidates, your own employees are the best salespeople. Top recruiting leaders already know the tremendous value that a firm … Read more
LinkedIn Referrals Set to Close Down Later This Month
If Indeed getting out of the candidate referral business wasn’t enough to convince you that it’s a failed business model, how about LinkedIn? … Read more
Another Employee-referral Platform Is Going Bye-Bye
I wrote about Indeed’s dip into the referral program business back in September 2016 with a post entitled We Are All Recruiters Thanks to Indeed … Read more
Charging Job Seekers to Access Current Employees? Another Company Tries It
Ugh. Last year I wrote about a company called Purple Squirrel, which had just received funding to the tune of $2.7 million. I found its business model, … Read more
Purple Squirrel Raises $2.7 Million, Hoping Job Seekers Will Pay for Access to Employees
There used to be a time when job seekers were surprised to learn that job boards were free. No, really. They couldn’t believe uploading a resume and … Read more
Recruiters: Stop Asking for Referrals and Start Giving Respect
“Find out who they know!” “Get some names!” Every recruiter has heard those or similar phrases from their manager. It is reasonable to expect a recruiter … Read more
The Employee-referral Opportunity You May Be Missing
In many companies, once the recruiter makes the hires and perhaps onboards them, the recruiter is no longer involved in the new employees’ time at … Read more
Pinterest Produces Amazing Diversity Results … Using Proactive Targeted Referrals
By focusing on one type of diversity referral program, within six weeks a firm can dramatically turn around its diversity recruiting … to the point … Read more
Referrals From Job References — The Simplest and Cheapest Sourcing Tool
Almost everyone in recruiting agrees that employee referrals produce the highest quality of hire (i.e. superior on-the-job performance). But few are aware … Read more
Instantly Improve Diversity Recruiting Results With a Bonus for Diversity Referrals
As a result of providing corporate diversity and STEM recruiting solutions, we receive lots of questions in this area. By far, the most frequently asked … Read more
Rewriting 9 ‘Rules’ of Employee Referral Programs
Why are most referral programs limited to employees only? In a recent referrals survey conducted by SmashFly, 57 percent of organizations that have formal … Read more
New Startups Tackle Gamification, Referrals
Junkies of the ERE Daily newsletter may already know the recent news from Gild and HireVue, as well as launches of startups like Drafted, TARA, Stanby, and … Read more
EY’s Little Employee-referral Cheat Sheet
I’m not a big infographics fan, but I liked this short little summary of the business case for employee referrals, the components of a program, and a … Read more
Capitalizing on the Employee Referral Goldmine
FREE ERE Webinar: Wednesday, April 22 at 2 p.m. EDT Employee referrals remain the number one source of hire, but many companies aren’t capitalizing on this … Read more
Enhance Your Employee Referral Program Marketing Approach
Employees will refer talent into an organization when it’s easy and convenient for them — push and prod them too much and you risk … Read more