If you want your employees to recommend somebody, they need to know who you are looking for. Many companies do not have even the fundamental automated tools to periodically send out information about current vacancies to existing employees.
If a recommended candidate attends a job interview in your company and then gets no other response, he will naturally express frustration to the employee who recommended him. The employee will think it twice before recommending someone the next time.
Rewards for referrals are a very important motivating factor. If you offer only one kind of reward for a long time, your employees will lose motivation to participate in the program. Therefore, change the rewards regularly.
You should thank your employees for each referral of a potential new employee. If they receive no response from you or you take too long, they will stop taking you seriously and feel you are wasting their time.
In their effort to ensure transparency and fairness of the recruitment process, companies often make it impossible for senior managers and HR professionals to provide employee referrals. However, does it really make sense? These people should lead by example.
The website via which your employees can send their referrals should be optimized for mobile devices. While your people may not sit at their computers all the time (and some of them not at all), they always have their mobile phones at hand.
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Article source Recruiter.com - a U.S. career and employment website