When Should You Rely on Referrals in Hiring?

If your company is looking for new employees, people who know their jobs and have proven track records, you should use your current employees as a recruiting tool. Numerous studies have shown that employee referrals are the best (or one the best) hiring methods.

Employee referrals are a great way to locate new talent for your business. There are a couple of reasons for this.

1. Your employees have professional networks.

They know other people in their professional fields, people they may have met online, at meetings or conferences, or through personal contact related to work. Moreover, they know who the good people are and who the not so good are. So, if they offer a referral, you can be reasonably certain that the person would be a good addition to the company.

Your employees also know the day-to-day tasks of the job. They are constantly thinking about the right person or their friend who can do this job. Most of your team won’t want to bring in a bad employee as that referral is directly tied to their name. They want to be successful in this area.

2. Cultural fit

Since current employees have met the people they refer or have worked with them, they are reasonably certain that the person would be a good fit with the company, someone who would acclimate to the company culture and get along with the other employees. While everyone wants to work with their friends, if you have a great company culture, then your employees won’t refer all of their close friends. They will refer the ones who are a great fit – both skills-wise and culture-wise.

Expanding Employee Referral Programs

In fact, referral programs work so well that some business experts have advocated expanding these programs. Most referral programs involve only current company employees, but this network could be expanded to include former employees, customers, vendors, consultants, clients, and anyone else who might have contact with the company.

This greatly expands the number of people acting as recruiters, all people who know the company and know who would make a good employee at the company.

Moreover, these business experts argue that it should be easier to make referrals. Instead of making employees go through some bureaucratic procedure, filling out forms and the like, they should be allowed to simply submit a name and a brief background summary of the person. The process should be streamlined and made as easy as possible.

And employees or others should be able to make referrals at any time – not just when the company is looking to fill open positions.

In many referral programs, if two people refer the same person, only one gets the reward for doing it. This is another shortsighted policy. Whoever makes a referral should be rewarded, period. In fact, it is an advantage to the company to have multiple referrals for one person – the company will be able to get more information about that person, a view of the person from different perspectives.

Work with a Top Staffing Agency in the Inland Empire

If your Inland Empire business is looking for people, another good way to find them, in addition to referrals, is through a staffing agency. And there is no one better at recruiting in the Inland Empire than Arrow Staffing. We have the track record of excellence to prove it. Call Arrow today to find a job in the Inland Empire.

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