Creating Powerful Employee Referral Programs

By Author: Savio Vadakkan
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A good employee referral program is essential to acquire and retain the right talent. This task is far from being as easy as it sounds. You as a recruiter understand the value of employee referrals but do your employees understand the intensity of this activity?

There are several reasons as to why an employee won’t be proactive in sourcing the right referral. Reasons could vary from not finding this activity worth to feeling left out in the subsequent processes once the referral has been made. Thus, it is essential to motivate the employees and bring them on the same page so as to realize the importance of employee referrals.

A few tips on encouraging employee participation:

Create a spark of excitement:

By making the employee referrals a fun activity, like a game or contest will definitely catch the attention of the young employees. Emphasis should be laid on the fact that, not only would their referrals benefit the organization overall, but would be beneficial for them as well. It would be interesting to have one’s own contact working alongside with them, in the same organization. ...
... After all, the referral program is a collaborative effort of the human resource department along with the employees and it is this ideology that generates unity, team work and excitement to go on with the task.

Recognition:

Participation in the employee referral program means that the employees are performing an activity not prescribed in their regular job description. Thus, this very attempt would need to be recognized, even if the employee referral does not result in a hire. Thus, ensuring that the employees are convinced that even their attempts, irrespective of the end result would be recognized would go a long way in encouraging referrals.

Employment assistance tool:

Having an employee referral tool in place would ease the referral process. The employees would know all the necessary details hence eliminating any scope of ambiguity. Clarity on the subject would motivate the employees to move ahead with the referral activity.

Transparency:

Ensuring that there is enough transparency facilitates a healthy employee referral engagement activity. It would motivate and in a way act as a recognition if the employee is kept in the loop at every stage of his or her referrals progress in the hiring process.

This way the employee’s role in the recruitment process increases which in turn instills a sense of responsibility towards the manpower sourcing in the organization.

Tools like ZALP make the referral process for employees not only simple but also fun. This largely contributes to employee participation which is critical to the success of any employee referral program. This also helps organizations unleash their social recruiting potential.

ZALP is one of the very few recognized softwares that single mindedly focuses on improving the employee referral program of an organization. ZALP gives employees more than 7 easy and convenient ways to make quick referrals through its powerful social media integration.

About ZALP

ZALP is a unique socially intelligent employee referral software.

With ZALP organizations can now automate and streamline every aspect of their employee referral program while at the time same integrate it with the potent potential of social recruitment using its advanced social media capabilities. This helps recruiters completely leverage the potential of social media recruiting.

Each of ZALP’s features have been specifically developed to give organizations a new and innovative referral platform that drastically accelerates employee participation which in turn results in a considerable reduction in the cost per hire and time to fill.

Visit www.zalp.com to know about the latest social media technology in recruiting

Author Bio :

Savio Vadakkan, Marketing Representative at Zalp which is a social employee referral software with which organizations can now automate and streamline every aspect of their employee referral program while at the time same integrate it with the potent potential of social recruitment using its advanced social media capabilities. social recruiting