Turn employees into active hiring partners.
Increase employee participation, referral activity, and hiring results with AI-powered engagement campaigns, mobile and SMS referrals, and employee-powered sourcing, all in one platform.
Most referral programs fail because employees can't, or don't, participate.
Employee engagement in hiring isn't an attitude problem. It's a design problem. Legacy employee referral software assumes employees will log into a desktop portal, search a job board, and fill out a referral form they don't have time for. They won't. The good news: when engagement is designed correctly, mobile, SMS, AI-personalized, visible, and rewarded, participation jumps from single digits into the 70%+ range.
Without proactive, role-relevant nudges, employees lose track of what's hiring inside their own company.
Old referral portals demand desktop logins, long forms, and resumes employees don't have on hand.
Quarterly all-hands mentions aren't communication, they're noise. Employees need targeted, timely outreach.
Employees don't know what referrals are worth, where their submissions stand, or whether they've been hired.
If submitting a referral takes more than 30 seconds, most employees won't bother, especially on the front line.
Referral programs without recognition, leaderboards, or visible bonuses drift into invisibility within a quarter.
Engaged employees compound every recruiting metric you care about.
Employee engagement is the multiplier on every other recruiting investment. Engaged employees refer more, share more, convert more candidates, and stay longer, and so do the people they refer. Higher employee referral engagement means higher referral volume, better candidate quality, stronger employer brand, and dramatically lower cost-per-hire across the workforce.
An employee experience built for participation, not paperwork.
ERIN Refer is an employee referral platform engineered around how employees actually behave. Personalized campaigns reach the right people. Mobile and SMS referrals work in 30 seconds or less. Bonus tracking, automated communications, and a unified employee portal keep participation visible from first referral through payout.
- Employee portal, web, mobile, SMS, and QR-driven participation
- Native iOS and Android apps for sub-30-second referrals
- Text-to-refer for deskless, retail, healthcare, and field workers
- Personalized referral campaigns powered by AI
- Automated bonus tracking, eligibility, and payroll handoff
- Recognition, leaderboards, and milestone communications
Most employees want to help, they just don't know who to refer.
ERIN Source eliminates the "I don't know anyone" blocker that kills most referral programs. The model identifies likely candidates from inside employee networks and serves them up as ready-made referrals and warm introductions, dramatically increasing participation among employees who would never have submitted an unprompted referral.
- 01Job
Recruiter pastes any job URL into ERIN Source.
- 02Employee
AI ranks the employees most likely to know strong candidates.
- 03Suggested candidate
ERIN surfaces named connections from inside the employee's network.
- 04Referral
The employee confirms the referral or warm intro, in one tap.
- AI ranks employees most likely to know strong candidates
- Surfaces named candidate connections inside employee networks
- Generates referral asks, employees only need to say yes
- Enables warm introductions where employees don't want to formally refer
- Recruiter-led, makes participation effortless for employees
- Works on any job URL, no rollout required
Six engagement levers ERIN supports out of the box.
Native iOS and Android apps so employees can refer in under 30 seconds from anywhere, break rooms, plant floors, between patients, on the road.
Text-to-refer and SMS campaigns reach deskless, clinical, retail, and field employees that email never touches.
AI matches roles to the right employees, only the people most likely to help get the ask, in language tuned to their team.
Leaderboards, streaks, and milestone bonuses turn referrals into a visible, social, ongoing employee activity.
Public thank-yous, manager shout-outs, and bonus visibility make every referral feel valued, not anonymous.
Automated nudges, milestone updates, and bonus status keep employees engaged from first referral through payout.
Every touchpoint that turns awareness into participation.
Auto-launched, role-specific campaigns that activate the right employees for each open req.
Text-to-refer for deskless and frontline employees, no login, no app required.
Native iOS and Android apps so any employee can refer in under 30 seconds.
Employees see exactly where their referrals stand, submitted, interviewed, hired, paid.
Bonus amounts, eligibility, milestone payouts, and status visible to every employee at all times.
ERIN recommends roles to each employee based on their network and history, not blasted spam.
A single, branded portal where employees can see open roles, submit referrals, and track outcomes.
ERIN Source surfaces named candidates from employee networks, employees just confirm or introduce.
One-tap LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and X sharing, with referral attribution baked in.
Posters, badges, and packaging turn into referral surfaces with role-aware QR codes.
Leaderboards, milestone badges, and manager shout-outs that keep participation visible and rewarded.
Participation, top referrers, source-of-hire, time-to-fill, and bonus spend in a single dashboard.
Engagement built for the way your workforce actually works.
Healthcare
Increase participation among nurses, caregivers, physicians, and clinicians, where mobile and SMS referrals reach employees email never does.
Retail
Drive engagement across store employees with mobile, SMS, and store-level campaigns purpose-built for high-turnover, frontline teams.
Manufacturing
Activate frontline workers with SMS referrals, QR codes, and recognition built for plant-floor and shift-based workforces.
Hospitality
Engage hourly employees in restaurants, hotels, and venues with quick mobile and SMS-based referral experiences.
Transportation & Logistics
Increase referrals among drivers and field workers, text-to-refer and mobile-first experiences built for life on the road.
Where most programs land, and what high-engagement programs look like.
Employee referral participation is the single most predictive metric of a healthy program. The biggest gap in the industry isn't bonus size or job count, it's how many of your employees are actually active in a given period. Here's where programs typically sit, and what high-engagement programs do differently.
- Move from desktop-only portals to mobile + SMS access for the frontline.
- Send role-targeted referral asks, not company-wide blasts.
- Show bonus amounts, status, and milestone payouts to every employee.
- Use AI to recommend the right candidates and the right employees for each role.
- Recognize top referrers publicly, leaderboards, manager shout-outs, milestone badges.
- Run continuous AI-driven engagement campaigns, not one-off launches.
Engagement outcomes from ERIN customers.
AI-generated employee engagement campaigns.
ERIN Studio is a free AI toolkit for recruiting and HR teams. Generate employee engagement campaigns, recruiter and HR email templates, posters, and referral promotion assets in minutes, all on-brand and ready to launch.
- Engagement campaigns
- Email templates
- Promotion assets
Employee engagement for hiring, answered.
Build a referral program employees actually use
Build an employee referral program employees actually use.
ERIN helps organizations increase employee engagement, referral participation, and hiring results through automation, AI, and employee-powered sourcing.