Automating Your Employee Referral Program Is Important: Know How

By Author: savio vadakkan
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The essence of automation is to eliminate the need for manual intervention from routine tasks which can be performed more accurately and efficiently through an automated system. The same benefit derives from automating the employee referral process in an organization. Firstly it ensures that the program sticks to defined SLA’s including providing timely feedback to candidates. Secondly, automating the employee referral program helps to free up time of HR and recruitment to engage in more strategic business value adding work.

An automated employee referral process enables auto posting of jobs. Automating sharing of job openings on a periodic ongoing basis, both to your employees as well as on your career site and other social media sites ensures that the program is not person dependant and no openings are lost through the cracks. Moreover auto posting of job openings means that employees know when to expect job opening details and can plan to share referral details accordingly. Also an automated process makes it easier for employees to share job openings with their connections by enabling them to set up a customized ...
... auto recurring schedule on the preferred social networks thus increasing the visibility and reach of your recruitment effort while helping employees save time and effort.

Automating the feedback process can be a potential game changer for the employee referral program as the biggest grouse that employees have is the lack of any feedback on profiles referred by them. An automated employee referral system ensures that employees can track the status of their referred candidate online leading to greater engagement of employees with the referral program.

There are also tool like ZALP available today that provide advanced automation features in the employee referral program allowing intelligent matching of candidates through algorithms. Automating the candidate matching process literally saves hours of work merely sifting through innumerable profiles to manually match the job requirements with candidate skill sets. Instead, an automated process provides employees with matching algorithms which they need to simply run through their social connections to come up with suitable matches. Not only does it save time and effort spent on simply going through the vast network of connections to come up with relevant matches, an automated system based on well constructed algorithm provides for greater accuracy in matching job description to profiles leading to better hiring.

An automated employee referral process has become a necessity in today’s work environment, with the new generation of employees not really motivated to engage in programs and processes that are not driven by technology and require too much of manual effort. So investing in an automated employee referral program might be worthwhile to reap the benefits of an effective talent pipeline.

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 integration between social media and recruiting.

Author Bio:

Savio Vadakkan is the Marketing Professional at ZALP, a unique employee referrals booster. ZALP enables organizations to automate and streamline every aspect of their an automated employee referral program while at the time same integrates it with the potent potential of social media recruiting using its advanced social media capabilities.