By Dr. John Sullivan & Master Burnett Over the past six weeks, we have attended eight large conferences that focus on or relate to talent acquisition. … Read more
Hires Per Employee Referral
Gerry Crispin, who with Mark Mehler runs the CareerXroads consultancy, sent over some new stats on employee referrals. CareerXroads surveyed 56 large, … Read more
Recruiting Passive Candidates — How to Get Top-notch Referrals
Without question, having a large LinkedIn network is a competitive advantage for any recruiter working on hard-to-fill positions and hard-to-find … Read more
Privacy, Transparency Being Addressed By New Facebook Sourcing Tool
I had an informative, and reassuring conversation this morning with the founder and head of BranchOut, a Facebook app that I wrote about yesterday, which … Read more
Factors That Degrade Employee Referral Program Performance — Reducing Results from Great to Good
Without even knowing the name of your organization I can predict that throughout the most recent downturn you let your employee referral program “go,” so … Read more
Referral Recruiting: Duh!
It has been interesting to note the recent re-emergence of referral recruiting ventures and ideas. Duh, everybody knows that (employee) referrals have been … Read more
Spend the Summer Rebuilding Your Referral Program and Reap a Bounty of Benefits
I have a suggestion for you . . . dedicate your summer to re-building your employee referral program. Now is an ideal time to invest in program design and … Read more
Making Your Employee Referral Program Work Smarter — Follow-Up Questions and Answers, Part 2
Dr. John Sullivan and Master Burnett Based on the registration response and volume of questions submitted during a recent ERE webinar on Making Your … Read more
Employee Referral Programs Using More Social Media
Employee referrals and social recruiting, which already began melding through Jobvite, Cachinko, and other tools, are growing even closer as new vendors … Read more
Advanced Employee Referral Programs — Best Practices You Need to Copy
Organizations that collect data on sources of hire consistently find that employee referral programs produce a high volume of high-performing hires with … Read more