Referral recruitment

LinkedIn Referral Engine

The Referral Engine from LinkedIn will be available end of 2011 and promises to ‘Unlock the Power of Your Employees’ Networks. It was first announced on 3rd of November 2010 and is solution that has been developed in partnership with Accenture to pilot the product and get the final details right. A few more details […]

Refer a friend and get $10,000 and a year’s supply of beer

I love creative recruitment campaigns! And Hipster, a tech start-up in San Francisco, has been successful in attracting promising Mobile Engineers and Ruby Engineers, coming from companies like Google, Twitter, SalesForce, Oracle and AOL, to its company with a great referral campaign and an special attention-getting offer; $10,000 in cash and a year’s supply of […]

Case study: How referral enables the growth of Philips

Recently Nicole Bueters, Director Talent Acquisition at Philips Benelux, shared her experience with the road to a successful referral program in a multinational. According to their own research, targeted sourcing, referral and internal labor market yield the best quality of hire. External agencies produced the lowest quality of hire. But they didn’t have one structured […]

Where do employers and job candidates meet?

CareerXroads Finds Out in Annual Source of Hires Study CareerXroads releases its 10th Annual Sources of Hire (SOH) Study – a snapshot of how large, highly-competitive, high-profile firms find their employees. Tracking and monitoring the sources of actual hires tells companies where to dedicate their hiring resources and tells job seekers where to direct their […]

How do you approach your (social) referral program?

More and more social (sharing) tools are coming available on the market that promise to boost your Employee Referral Program (ERP). These tools are build to easily share your vacancies via employees on their preferred social network of choice e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter. But will such a tool really make a big impact? Dr. […]