Employee referral programs may produce more hires — perhaps many more — than surveys would suggest.
Over the years it has come to be accepted that the average number of new hires coming from employee referral programs is somewhere between SHRM’s 24 percent (for non-exempt positions) to about a third. Some programs do much better.
From CareerXroads now comes evidence that the hires from employee referrals are undercounted.
“Referrals permeate the recruiting process more than we think,” says recruiting consultant Gerry Crispin, a CareerXroads principal. Read more…
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