ERIN, AI Employee Referral Platform
Solutions · High-Volume Hiring

High-volume hiring without high recruiting costs.

Use employee referrals, AI-powered sourcing, and automated recruiting campaigns to fill more positions faster, and stop depending on job boards and agencies to scale.

Hiring funnel (sample monthly)
Applicants12,400
Referral candidates1,820
Qualified interviews640
Hires212
55%
faster fills
45%
lower cost
70%
stronger retention
01The challenge of high-volume hiring

Traditional recruiting channels break down at scale.

Every high-volume hiring team eventually hits the same wall: more applicants, worse quality, ballooning agency spend, and overworked recruiters. Scaling recruitment by throwing more job-board dollars or more headcount at the problem rarely works for long, and mass hiring strategies built on paid channels alone don't compound the way an employee-powered engine does.

Recruiter overload

Talent teams drowning in thousands of low-fit applications per req, with no time to engage the candidates worth interviewing.

Applicant quality

Job board volume is high, but conversion to qualified, hireable applicants keeps falling as paid channels saturate.

Agency costs

Contingency fees and RPO spend balloon during growth spurts and seasonal peaks, and the spend doesn't compound.

Job board saturation

Sponsored job spend yields diminishing returns; the same candidates see the same posts across every aggregator.

Speed-to-fill

Frontline and clinical roles can't sit open. Every day of vacancy costs revenue, overtime, or patient care.

Turnover at scale

Bad sourcing channels mean shorter tenure, more backfills, and a never-ending hiring loop.

02Why employee referrals scale better

The one recruiting channel that gets more valuable as you grow.

Every new employee adds a new network. With ERIN Refer driving program-wide participation and ERIN Source surfacing candidates inside those networks on demand, referrals stop being a nice-to-have and become the backbone of a high-volume hiring engine, better candidates, faster hiring, higher retention, and lower sourcing costs.

45%
lower cost per hire than job boards
55%
faster time-to-fill on referred candidates
70%
higher 1-year retention vs cold applicants
higher offer-acceptance rate
03Two ways to solve high-volume hiring

Build a referral engine, or activate referrals instantly, or do both.

ERIN Refer is the complete employee referral platform for organizations rolling a program out to the whole workforce. ERIN Source is a recruiter-first AI tool that surfaces employee-network referrals for any open req today, with no platform implementation required.

ERIN Refer

Build a referral engine across your workforce

A complete employee referral platform built for scale. Automated AI campaigns, mobile and text-to-refer participation, ATS/HRIS sync, automated bonuses, and employee engagement, all aimed at sustaining referral volume across thousands of employees.

  • Complete employee referral platform with admin + employee portals
  • AI-driven referral campaigns targeted to the right employees
  • Mobile + text-to-refer for deskless and frontline workforces
  • 70+ ATS and HRIS integrations, Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse, UKG, more
  • Automated bonus tiers, eligibility rules, and payroll handoff
  • Engagement, leaderboards, and recognition to drive participation
ERIN Source

Activate referrals instantly, no rollout required

Paste a job URL. ERIN identifies the employees most likely to know qualified candidates, surfaces their named connections, and arms recruiters with personalized outreach for warm intros or direct candidate contact.

  • Paste any job URL, internal or public, to start sourcing
  • AI ranks employees most likely to know qualified candidates
  • Surfaces named 1st-degree connections inside employee networks
  • Generates personalized referral asks and outreach in one click
  • Direct candidate outreach or warm employee introductions
  • Deploys without rolling out a referral platform to the workforce
04Industries hiring at scale with ERIN

Purpose-built for high-volume, frontline, and deskless workforces.

Healthcare Hiring

Nurses, CNAs, caregivers, allied health, and clinical support staff. ERIN powers continuous referral programs at health systems where every open shift impacts patient care.

RNs & LPNsCNAs & care techsCaregiversAllied healthBehavioral health

Retail Hiring

Store associates, shift leads, district managers, and seasonal hiring at scale. ERIN runs always-on referral campaigns across hundreds of locations.

Store associatesShift leads & supervisorsStore managersSeasonal hiringDistribution centers

Manufacturing Hiring

Production workers, machine operators, technicians, and skilled trades. ERIN replaces expensive job boards with employees who know other operators in their community.

Production workersMachine operatorsMaintenance techniciansSkilled tradesPlant supervisors

Transportation & Logistics

CDL drivers, warehouse associates, dispatchers, and last-mile workers. Driver referrals consistently out-perform every paid channel on quality and retention.

CDL-A driversLocal & last-mile driversWarehouse associatesDispatchersLogistics coordinators

Hospitality Hiring

Frontline hospitality, food service, and housekeeping at hotels, restaurants, and senior living communities, where peer referrals lift speed-to-hire and 90-day retention.

Front desk & guest servicesFood & beverageHousekeepingCulinaryCatering & events

Contact Center Hiring

Customer service reps, agents, team leads, and bilingual hiring. ERIN's customer ResultsCX has driven 8,000+ referral hires from a single referral engine.

CSRs & agentsBilingual repsTeam leadsQA & coachesWork-from-home cohorts
05How ERIN accelerates hiring

From open req to referred hire, at scale.

  1. 01
    Jobs import automatically

    Open reqs sync from your ATS, Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse, UKG, and 70+ more, in real time.

  2. 02
    AI identifies likely referrers

    ERIN ranks employees by who is most likely to know qualified candidates for each role.

  3. 03
    Campaigns launch automatically

    Targeted AI campaigns ship via mobile, email, SMS and Slack, no recruiter coordination required.

  4. 04
    Employees get personalized matches

    Each employee sees a short list of roles their network is likely to fit, not a wall of jobs.

  5. 05
    Referrals generated

    Mobile, text-to-refer, QR codes, and direct candidate outreach all flow back as tracked referrals.

  6. 06
    Hires made

    Referrals enter the ATS as native records, bonuses fire automatically, and analytics track time-to-fill.

06Recruitment automation features

Everything you need to hire at scale, on one platform.

AI Campaigns

Match the right open role to the right employees automatically, at thousands of reqs per month.

SMS Referrals

Text-to-refer for frontline and deskless workers, no app, no login, no friction.

Mobile Referrals

Native iOS and Android apps so employees can refer in 30 seconds from anywhere.

ATS Integrations

Two-way sync with Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse, SuccessFactors, UKG, Lever and 70+ more.

HRIS Integrations

Pull eligibility, departments, locations and tenure from your HRIS to automate every rule.

Automated Bonuses

Tier-based payouts, milestone triggers, and payroll handoff, even across countries and currencies.

QR Codes

Break-room posters, badges, and event signs that route candidates to the right job with employee attribution.

Candidate Discovery

ERIN Source finds qualified candidates inside employee networks for every open req.

Referral Recommendations

Personalized job-match recommendations sent to each employee, so the right people see the right roles.

Direct Candidate Outreach

AI-drafted outreach goes from recruiter to candidate with referral attribution baked in.

Analytics

Funnel reporting, time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, source-of-hire, and recruiter scorecards.

Employee Engagement

Lightweight gamification and leaderboards to sustain participation across thousands of employees.

07Customer results

Real high-volume hiring teams, real numbers.

ResultsCX
ERIN customer
385,530
referrals submitted
8,116
referral hires
73%
employee participation
Vi Living
ERIN customer
35%
of hires from referrals
98%
employee adoption
10×
increase in referral volume
ERIN Studio · Free

Launch recruitment marketing campaigns in minutes.

ERIN Studio is a free AI toolkit for recruiting teams. Generate referral marketing assets, build campaign copy for high-volume reqs, and ship from a library of templates tuned for healthcare, retail, manufacturing, transportation, hospitality, and contact centers.

  • Free AI toolkit for recruiting and HR teams
  • On-brand referral marketing assets in minutes
  • High-volume hiring playbooks, policies and bonus calculators
  • Templates for healthcare, retail, manufacturing, logistics and more
Explore ERIN Studio
08FAQ

High-volume hiring, answered.

09Resources

Guides and tools for hiring at scale

Scale hiring through employee referrals.

Whether you need a complete employee referral platform or a way to activate referrals immediately, ERIN helps high-volume hiring teams fill more roles, faster, cheaper, and with better retention.