How to Not #$!% Up Employee Referrals
Our book about creating an employee referral program brings together high-impact tactics, data points, and advice from some of the most ambitious and innovative talent acquisition leaders.
With this book, you’ll have everything you need to launch a highly successful program at scale. Here are some key items we cover in our book:
Employee referral program business case
We dig into the ROI of employee referral programs and how to get buy-in from leadership.
Employee referral policies and strategies
Discover the key parts of every referral policy, as well as actionable tactics to make your employee referral program strategy triumph.
Benchmarks and statistics
Learn how you can measure the success of your program and where your org performs against others.

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Infographic
Check out our free infographic that shares employee referral statistics for 2023. We break these numbers down by industry and company types.
We also have a blog post where we share some high-level insights, summarizing the findings in the infographic. You can read the post here.
Infographic
Strategies, practices, and technologies for building a workforce in 2022 and beyond.
The survey, called “The Future of Talent Acquisition” ran in the first quarter of 2022. There were responses from 214 participants with 127 responding to every question. The participants represent a broad cross-section of employers by a number of employees, ranging from small businesses with under 100 employees to enterprises with 20,000 or more employees. Eighteen percent of respondents represent organizations with 1000 or more employees.
Webinar
Hosted by HR.com and sponsored by ERIN on August 25th, 2022.
While employee referrals have been the gold standard for talent acquisition for decades, engaging employees to participate in talent acquisition has always been a hurdle to a successful employee referral policy. Featuring special guest Matt Rimer from Trinity healthcare, we’ll jump into proven tactics his team is deploying to engage over 100,000 employees to participate in their referral program.
While the average business is getting 8% – 15% hires from referrals, successful programs are boasting 35%+ hires. How is this accomplished? Proper incentives and engagement. In this webinar, we will discuss how to get the most out of your employee referral policy by providing the right incentives and effective engagement tactics. We’ll deep dive into average bonuses by industry, 5+ proven tactics to get employees to participate, and effective communication techniques that drive success.