ERIN, AI Employee Referral Platform
Solutions · HR Leaders

Empower employees. Improve hiring. Strengthen retention.

ERIN helps HR leaders increase employee engagement, improve workforce outcomes, and build a stronger hiring strategy through employee referrals, employee-powered sourcing, and internal mobility.

Employee lifecycle
Employees
Engagement
Referrals
Hiring
Retention
Growth
+22pts
engagement
+70%
retention
35%
referral hires
01The HR leader's challenge

Engagement, retention, and hiring, all on the same desk.

Modern HR leaders are accountable for the full employee experience and the workforce outcomes it produces, engagement, retention, internal mobility, and hiring quality. Employee-powered hiring is the quiet lever that moves all of them together.

Talent shortages

Critical roles, nursing, technical, frontline, leadership, sit open while traditional channels under-deliver and workforce plans slip.

Retention concerns

Voluntary turnover keeps eroding the workforce. Every loss is rehire cost, ramp time, and lost productivity that lands on HR's desk.

Employee engagement

Engagement scores and pulse surveys are flat. HR needs programs that translate to real, in-flow employee behavior, not just survey movement.

Workforce planning

Plans are built on hope. HR needs real-time visibility into internal supply, referral capacity, and employee-network reach to plan honestly.

Hiring costs

Agency, advertising, and sourcing-tool spend keep climbing while CFOs ask the opposite. HR carries part of that ROI conversation.

Internal mobility

Top talent leaves because they can't see internal growth paths. HR needs a way to surface opportunities to the right employees, in the moments that matter.

02Why employee engagement impacts hiring

Engagement → referrals → hires → retention. The flywheel HR leaders own.

Engaged employees refer more candidates, advocate for the brand, and stay longer. Their referred hires also stay longer. That's not two separate programs, it's a single flywheel HR leaders are uniquely positioned to run. ERIN is the platform that operationalizes it.

2.4×
more referrals from highly engaged employees
70%
higher retention on referred hires
60–90%
participation on a modern mobile referral program
higher response on warm intros vs. cold outreach
03How ERIN Refer drives employee participation

The employee experience that actually engages your workforce.

ERIN Refer is the mobile-first, SMS-enabled employee experience that turns engagement into action. Easy referrals, visible recognition, and automated bonuses, wired into your HRIS and ATS so HR doesn't carry manual lift.

  • Easy mobile referrals, under 30 seconds, no training required
  • Text-to-refer and SMS nudges for deskless and frontline workforces
  • Employee campaigns aimed at the right internal audiences
  • Real-time referral tracking and ATS sync
  • Bonus visibility, eligibility, and payroll handoff automated
  • Recognition built into the employee experience
Employee engagement journey
Onboard via HRIS
01
Engage on mobile / SMS
02
Refer in under 30 seconds
03
Track status + bonus
04
Recognized for hires
05
Employee network activation
Employees
Network
Warm intro
Hire
04How ERIN Source activates employee networks

Your employees know qualified candidates. ERIN Source finds them.

ERIN Source uses AI to identify the ideal referrers for every open role and surfaces named candidates inside their networks. HR and recruiting trigger warm introductions that convert at multiples of cold outreach , without rolling out a full platform first.

  • Employees know qualified candidates your job ads will never reach
  • AI identifies the ideal referrers for each open role
  • Surface named 1st-degree network candidates inside employee networks
  • Trigger warm introductions or direct outreach with an employee anchor
  • Increase recruiting reach without adding paid channels
  • Works on individual reqs, no broader rollout required
05Internal mobility and career growth

Support growth from within.

Regrettable attrition often happens because employees can't see internal growth paths. ERIN surfaces internal opportunities to the right employees, captures interest as first-class candidates, and feeds the same workflow as referrals, making internal mobility a primary hiring and retention lever, not an afterthought.

Promote internal opportunities to the right employees automatically
Capture internal interest as first-class candidates
Support career advancement and lateral moves visibly
Reduce regrettable attrition by surfacing growth paths in time
Strengthen succession planning with internal pipeline data
06Building a referral-driven culture

Engagement isn't a launch event. It's a culture system HR leaders run.

The most successful referral programs aren't built on bonuses alone. They are built on advocacy, recognition, in-flow communication, leadership visibility, and the day-to-day experience employees have on mobile. These are the pillars of a referral-driven culture, and the system ERIN operationalizes.

Employee advocacy

Make it easy and rewarding for employees to share roles, refer candidates, and amplify employer brand content, the most credible recruiting signal you have.

Recognition programs

Recognize referral activity, hires, and ambassador behavior visibly. Recognition compounds participation faster than bonuses alone.

Communication strategies

In-flow communication via mobile, SMS, Slack, and Teams, not another email employees ignore. Reach employees where they actually work.

Leadership support

CHRO and people-leader visibility into participation, hires, and impact, so leaders can champion the program with real data.

Program adoption

Mobile-first design, AI-driven engagement campaigns, and automated nudges that drive sustained, not seasonal, participation.

Measurement

Participation, referral mix, hires, retention, and engagement reported together, so HR can prove the link between culture and outcomes.

07What's in the platform

Everything an HR team needs to run engagement and hiring together.

Employee Referral Platform

Enterprise referral platform with branded employee experience across web, iOS, and Android.

Mobile Referrals

Refer in under 30 seconds, purpose-built for deskless and frontline workforces.

SMS Referrals

Text-to-refer and SMS nudges that reach the workforce email doesn't.

Engagement Campaigns

AI-launched, audience-aware campaigns that surface the right roles to the right teams.

Referral Tracking

Real-time visibility into referral status, owner, and stage for HR and recruiters alike.

Bonus Automation

Tiered bonuses by role, business unit, and country with payroll handoff and audit trail.

Internal Mobility Support

Surface internal opportunities to the right employees in the moments that matter.

Candidate Discovery

ERIN Source surfaces employee-network candidates for any open req.

Warm Introductions

The highest-converting outreach in recruiting, driven from employee networks.

Analytics

Participation, engagement, hires, retention, and program-health dashboards for HR leaders.

Employee Communications

AI-generated comms across email, SMS, social, and internal channels via ERIN Studio.

AI Campaigns

AI-launched referral and mobility campaigns aimed at the right internal networks.

08Business outcomes

The HR metrics your CHRO and CFO both ask about.

Employee Retention

Referred hires retain 70% better at 1 year. Internal mobility further reduces regrettable attrition. HR sees the impact in both numbers.

Employee Engagement

Mobile-first participation drives sustained engagement that survey-driven programs alone never produce.

Hiring Quality

Higher offer-acceptance, higher 90-day pass rates, and stronger manager satisfaction on referred and employee-network candidates.

Time-to-Fill

Referral hires close materially faster than agency or job-board hires, and faster on the hard reqs that drag the average.

Cost-per-Hire

Every referral hire offsets agency, sourcing, and job-board spend on the same role, a line CFOs and CHROs both notice.

Referral Participation

Lift participation from 5–10% on legacy tools to 60–90% on a modern ERIN program.

09Industry examples

Built for the industries with the hardest workforce challenges.

Healthcare

HR leaders facing nursing, caregiver, and clinical shortages use ERIN to activate nurse networks and improve retention on the hardest reqs.

Retail

Store-level participation through SMS and QR posters, purpose-built for the hourly, mobile-only workforce HR is responsible for engaging.

Manufacturing

Frontline plant and warehouse referrals through mobile and text-to-refer, and internal mobility into skilled and lead roles.

Hospitality

Hourly hiring and ambassador-style referral cultures across multi-property portfolios with localized policies and bonuses.

Transportation & Logistics

Driver and operations referrals from deskless workforces, with HRIS-driven eligibility and bonus automation.

Technology

Hard-to-fill technical talent activation through warm intros, candidate discovery, and AI-generated outbound.

10Customer outcomes

HR teams running on ERIN.

ResultsCX
ERIN customer

Global HR and TA org activated 70k+ employees as an engagement and hiring channel.

385,530
referrals submitted
8,116
referral hires
73%
employee participation
Vi Living
ERIN customer

Senior-living HR team rebuilt the employee experience around participation and recognition.

35%
of hires from referrals
98%
employee adoption
10×
increase in referral volume
ERIN Studio · Free

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11FAQ

HR, engagement, and hiring, answered.

12Resources

Guides for HR leaders

Create a more engaged workforce.

ERIN helps HR leaders improve employee engagement, retention, hiring outcomes, and workforce development through employee-powered hiring.