Employee referrals are a crucial talent acquisition lever. While some companies prioritize the quantity of recommended profiles, others prefer implementing policies that generate fewer leads but with higher quality. To assist you in this endeavor, we have compiled some insights to help you generate ideas and solutions to achieve high-quality referrals.
How can you create an employee referral program that allows your recruiters to collect a pipeline of top-notch candidates? In this documentation, you will find some tips that can be easily implemented with Trusty to address this challenge.
Promote your employee referral program: It is essential that your employees are aware of all your open positions, as well as the requirements and qualifications for each role. Simply listing the open positions is not enough; you need to effectively communicate the profiles you are looking for.
➡️ Highlight key elements from the job description (education, years of experience, programming languages, etc.) to provide guidance to your employees and prevent them from referring profiles that do not match your requirements.
➡️ Utilize all available communication channels (Slack/Teams, emails, intranet, social media, posters, etc.) to let your employees know that you are actively seeking talent and relying on their assistance.
💡 We can help you create posters with QR codes so that your employees can quickly access your job offers.
Encourage your employees to refer high-quality candidates: Ensure that your employees are aware of the types of profiles you are seeking and encourage them to think about their professional networks. They can identify potential candidates who are suitable for the open positions.
➡️ You can use the Memory Palace technique as an example.
The goal is to read the following sentence and fill in the blanks:
"During my last experience at [company name], I was part of a great team responsible for managing [expertise name]. Among the team, the most outstanding person I had the chance to collaborate with and fully trust is [person's name]. And I believe that person belongs with us now."
Who did you think of? Refer them now.
PS: This technique helps you narrow down your thinking step by step. You can modify the sentence slightly to think about former classmates if you are currently in your first professional experience, or add elements related to your seniority if relevant (e.g., "the best colleague I managed" or "the best manager I had").
This exercise can be adapted by specifying a position or a team to aid your employees' memory.