ERIN, AI Employee Referral Platform
Solutions · Recruitment Marketing

Recruitment marketing powered by your employees.

Transform employees into your most effective recruiting channel with AI-powered recruitment marketing, employee referrals, and employee-powered candidate sourcing, all in one platform.

Campaign distribution
Job opening
Employee campaign
Social sharing
Referrals
Connections
Hire
campaign reach
audience trust
55%
lower CPA
01The problem with traditional recruitment marketing

Job ads and employer branding alone don't move the needle anymore.

For most of the last decade, recruitment marketing meant buying job-board sponsorships, running programmatic ads, and polishing the career site. Those channels still matter, but they've stopped scaling. Costs are up, organic reach is down, and candidates have learned to tune out branded recruitment content. The teams winning today are layering an employee-powered recruitment marketing channel on top.

Rising ad costs

Paid recruitment advertising costs climb every year while click quality drops, turning every open req into an auction.

Declining organic reach

Career-site traffic and corporate social posts reach a fraction of the audience they did five years ago.

Candidate fatigue

Qualified candidates ignore branded ads, recruiter InMails, and templated email blasts they receive every day.

Job board competition

Every employer is bidding on the same titles in the same cities, your job listing is a face in a crowd.

Low engagement rates

Branded recruitment campaigns convert at single-digit rates because they're talking to strangers, not warm audiences.

Untracked employer brand

Employer branding investment is hard to tie to hires, so budgets get cut first when hiring slows.

02Your employees are your largest recruiting audience

Every employee is a potential recruiting channel.

A 5,000-person company already has a recruitment marketing audience measured in millions: personal networks, social networks, professional relationships, alumni groups, and community connections. Activated properly, that audience extends your employer brand far beyond what any career site, job board, or paid ad could ever reach, and candidates trust it more.

  • Personal networks of every employee
  • Social networks across LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok
  • Professional relationships and former colleagues
  • Community, alumni, and industry connections
  • Trusted audiences that outperform paid recruitment ads
One role · employee network expansion
Role
1
Open role
500
Employees
250k+
In network
03How ERIN Source powers recruitment marketing

From a single job URL to a fully targeted employee campaign.

ERIN Source is the recruiter-first half of the ERIN recruitment marketing platform. Drop in any job URL and ERIN identifies the right employees, builds the campaign, and surfaces named candidate connections, turning every open role into a targeted, employee-powered recruitment marketing push.

  1. 01
    Enter a job URL

    Paste any public or internal job link. ERIN starts sourcing in seconds, no integration required.

  2. 02
    AI analyzes the role

    ERIN extracts skills, seniority, and signals that make a candidate a fit for this specific opening.

  3. 03
    Identify ideal employees

    Rank employees by who is most likely to know strong candidates and engage with the campaign.

  4. 04
    Build targeted campaigns

    Auto-generate role-specific outreach that goes only to the employees whose networks fit the role.

  5. 05
    Recommend referrals

    Surface named candidate connections inside employees' networks and request personalized referrals.

  6. 06
    Generate introductions

    Trigger warm intros from employees to passive candidates, the highest-converting outreach in recruiting.

  7. 07
    Increase applications

    Referred and introduced candidates apply, interview, and accept at multiples of cold-channel rates.

04How ERIN Refer drives employee participation

A referral platform built to make recruitment marketing employee-led.

ERIN Refer is the employee referral platform that powers sustained recruitment marketing across the whole workforce, mobile-first portals, SMS referrals, automated AI engagement campaigns, and end-to-end referral tracking. It's the participation engine behind every successful employee-powered recruitment marketing program.

ERIN Refer
  • Employee referral portal, mobile, web, SMS, and QR
  • Automated AI engagement campaigns for every open req
  • Text-to-refer for deskless, retail, healthcare, and field workers
  • Automated bonus tiers, eligibility, and payroll handoff
  • 70+ ATS integrations, Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse, SuccessFactors
  • Referral tracking, source-of-hire reporting, and recruiter analytics
Source bullets
  • Recruiter-first, paste a job URL to start
  • AI-ranked employee match for every role
  • Named candidate connections inside employee networks
  • One-click personalized referral asks and outreach
  • Warm introductions or direct candidate outreach
  • No platform rollout required, usable today
Where they fit together

Most teams start with ERIN Source for immediate recruiter productivity on key roles, then add ERIN Refer to sustain company-wide referral participation and recurring recruitment marketing campaigns. ERIN Studio sits across both, generating the creative for every campaign in minutes.

05Introducing ERIN Studio

AI-powered recruitment marketing content, in minutes, not weeks.

ERIN Studio is a free AI recruitment marketing toolkit. Generate posters, social graphics, email campaigns, referral campaign kits, launch materials, and internal communications, all on-brand, all tuned for the role and audience you're hiring for. Free standalone for everyone, and included with Refer and Source.

Posters

Branded recruitment posters for break rooms, clinics, plants, stores, and field offices.

Social graphics

On-brand Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and TikTok assets for any open req.

Email campaigns

Recruitment email templates tuned for employees, alumni, and candidate audiences.

Referral campaigns

Full campaign kits, copy, assets, and program comms, for every hiring push.

Launch materials

Program launch decks, FAQs, and announcement kits for new referral pushes.

Internal communications

Slack, Teams, intranet, and digital signage copy generated for every campaign.

06Recruitment marketing use cases

Recruitment marketing campaigns purpose-built for the way you hire.

Healthcare

Recruitment marketing campaigns for nurses, caregivers, and allied health professionals, where personal trust and peer referrals out-perform paid ads.

Nursing campaignsCaregiver recruitmentAllied health hiringBehavioral healthSpecialty clinics

Retail

Store associate, seasonal, and multi-unit hiring campaigns powered by store-level employee sharing and SMS referrals.

Store associatesSeasonal hiringDistrict campaignsMulti-unit leadersHoliday surges

Manufacturing

Skilled trade and technician recruitment campaigns that reach the talent your job ads keep missing.

Skilled tradesTechnician hiringPlant operatorsMaintenance rolesPlant leadership

Transportation & Logistics

Driver and warehouse recruiting campaigns where referrals consistently beat paid driver channels on quality and tenure.

CDL-A driver campaignsWarehouse hiringLast-mile recruitmentDispatchersFleet leadership
07Inside the recruitment marketing platform

Every channel your employees can light up, in one platform.

Employee Campaigns

Targeted recruitment marketing campaigns that activate the right employees for each role and audience.

AI Campaign Generation

Auto-generated campaign copy, creative, and cadence, tuned for the role, audience, and industry.

Social Sharing

One-tap employee sharing to LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and X with referral attribution.

Referral Recommendations

Personalized referral asks sent only to employees whose networks are likely to fit the open role.

Candidate Discovery

AI surfaces named candidates from inside employee networks, for any job URL.

Warm Introductions

Convert at 3–5× the rate of cold outreach by replacing recruiter pitches with trusted intros.

SMS Engagement

Text-to-refer and SMS nudges reach deskless, clinical, and field workers email never touches.

Email Campaigns

Automated employee and candidate email journeys for every active hiring campaign.

QR Codes

Posters, name badges, and packaging become referral surfaces with role-aware QR codes.

Mobile Referrals

Native iOS and Android apps so any employee can refer in under 30 seconds.

Recruitment Marketing Assets

ERIN Studio generates posters, socials, and emails on-brand in minutes, not weeks.

Analytics

Campaign reach, applicants, source-of-hire, and cost-per-hire by channel, all in one dashboard.

08Why employee-powered recruitment marketing works

Higher trust. Better engagement. Lower cost.

Recruitment marketing through employees consistently out-performs paid recruitment ads and corporate channels on every metric that matters, reach, trust, engagement, candidate quality, retention, and cost per hire. It works because it replaces anonymous brand impressions with trusted human relationships.

more reach when employees share vs the brand handle
higher trust in employee-shared content vs paid ads
55%
lower cost-per-applicant via referral campaigns
70%
higher 1-year retention for referred hires
09Customer success

Recruitment marketing outcomes from ERIN customers.

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
10FAQ

Recruitment marketing, answered.

11Resources

Build a better recruitment marketing program

Turn employees into your most effective recruiting channel.

ERIN combines recruitment marketing, employee referrals, and employee-powered sourcing to help organizations attract more qualified candidates, at lower cost, with higher trust.