ERIN, AI Employee Referral Platform
Solutions · Recruitment Marketing Teams

Turn employees into your most powerful recruiting channel.

Activate employees, expand candidate reach, and increase referral hires through recruitment marketing campaigns powered by AI and employee networks, built for the way modern recruitment marketing teams work.

Campaign flow
Job opening
01
Employee campaign
02
Social sharing
03
Employee networks
04
Referrals
05
Applications
06
10×
reach
engagement
45%
lower CPA
01The recruitment marketing challenge

Paid reach is shrinking. Costs are up. Candidates have tuned ads out.

Traditional recruitment marketing, pure paid ads, branded careers content, cold email, is hitting a wall. The teams winning right now are the ones treating employees as their largest distribution channel and using AI to produce campaign creative at the pace recruiting actually demands.

Declining organic reach

Social algorithms keep cutting branded reach. Your careers posts reach a fraction of the audience they did three years ago.

Rising advertising costs

CPC and CPM on job boards and social keep climbing while quality of applicant declines. Paid is no longer a sustainable primary channel.

Candidate attention scarcity

Candidates are flooded with cold outreach and identical-looking employer ads. Cutting through requires trust, not bigger budgets.

Employer brand competition

Every competitor in your category is running the same brand campaign. Differentiation has to come from real employee voices.

Limited campaign engagement

One-way recruiting campaigns don't engage. Two-way, employee-distributed campaigns convert at multiples of cold paid media.

Pressure to prove ROI

CMOs and TA leaders want measurable ROI on every recruitment marketing dollar, not vanity impressions.

02Your employees are the untapped recruiting audience

The largest recruiting channel you already own.

Every employee has a trusted network, hundreds of connections in roles adjacent to yours. Activating those networks extends employer brand reach, creates authentic engagement no paid ad can match, and turns into the referrals that lower cost-per-hire across the board. That's the channel ERIN was built to unlock.

10×
reach when employees share open roles
higher engagement vs. branded careers posts
more candidates from employee networks
45%
lower cost-per-applicant vs. paid channels
03How ERIN Source expands candidate reach

A six-step employee-powered campaign workflow.

Step 01
Enter a job URL

Paste any open role to start a campaign workflow.

Step 02
Identify ideal employees

AI surfaces employees most likely to know qualified candidates.

Step 03
Discover candidate connections

See named 1st-degree network matches inside employee networks.

Step 04
Generate referral opportunities

Recommend specific candidates to specific employees.

Step 05
Launch campaigns

Push targeted, audience-aware campaigns through employee channels.

Step 06
Drive applications

Convert warm intros into referral candidates and qualified applicants.

04How ERIN Studio powers recruitment marketing

Create recruitment campaigns in minutes, not weeks.

ERIN Studio is a free AI creative engine purpose-built for recruitment marketing teams. Generate social, posters, signage, QR campaigns, email, and internal communications, branded, on-message, and ready to deploy across every channel employees use.

AI-generated marketing assets
Social graphics
Posters
Digital signage
QR campaigns
Email campaigns
Internal communications
Referral promotions
Hiring event materials
05How ERIN Refer drives employee participation

The employee experience that turns campaigns into referrals.

Recruitment marketing only works if employees actually engage. ERIN Refer is the mobile-first, SMS-enabled employee experience that turns campaigns into participation, and participation into referrals routed straight into your ATS.

  • Branded employee portal across web, iOS, and Android
  • Mobile and SMS referrals for deskless and frontline workforces
  • Real-time referral tracking and ATS sync
  • Campaign engagement views per audience and business unit
  • Automated bonuses, eligibility, and payroll handoff
  • Slack and Teams integration for in-flow engagement
Engagement dashboard
Participation
73%
Shares
12.4k
Referrals
2,108
Applications
8,330
06Recruitment marketing use cases

Built for the industries that hire the hardest.

Healthcare

Promote nursing, caregiver, and clinical hiring campaigns through nurse and care-team networks, the audience least reached by paid recruiting ads.

Retail

Drive store-level hiring campaigns with QR posters, in-store signage, and SMS referrals from current store associates.

Manufacturing

Promote frontline plant and warehouse hiring initiatives with mobile-first, text-to-refer participation for shift workers.

Hospitality

Raise awareness for hourly hiring, front-of-house, kitchen, housekeeping, with shareable campaign assets employees can post in seconds.

Technology

Support hard-to-fill technical and product talent campaigns with warm intros, candidate discovery, and AI-generated outbound creative.

07Campaign types

Every recruitment marketing campaign, employee-powered.

Employee Referral Campaigns

Audience-targeted pushes that surface the right open roles to the right internal networks at the right time.

Hard-to-Fill Role Campaigns

Coordinated campaigns combining warm intros, referral asks, and AI-generated outbound creative on niche reqs.

Hiring Event Campaigns

Full event toolkits, posters, QR codes, social, and email invites, generated in Studio and distributed by employees.

Seasonal Hiring Campaigns

Peak-season, retail, hospitality, and high-volume frontline pushes designed for short-cycle hiring.

Social Media Campaigns

Branded, employee-amplified content across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and SMS.

Employee Ambassador Campaigns

Activate the most engaged employees in each business unit as recurring recruiting voices and ambassadors.

08What's in the platform

Everything a recruitment marketing team needs in one platform.

AI Campaign Creation

Generate campaign copy, audiences, and creative in minutes with ERIN Studio.

Social Sharing

One-tap employee sharing to LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and SMS.

QR Campaigns

Generate QR posters and digital signage for stores, plants, hospitals, and events.

Employee Engagement

Mobile, SMS, and Slack/Teams-ready engagement built for deskless workforces.

Referral Recommendations

Recommend specific candidates to specific employees for the warmest possible asks.

Candidate Discovery

Surface employee-network candidates for any open req, without a full rollout.

Warm Introductions

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

Email Campaigns

AI-generated email sequences for internal audiences and external warm outbound.

SMS Campaigns

Text-to-refer and SMS nudges that reach employees who never open recruiting email.

Marketing Asset Creation

Posters, social, signage, email, and event creative, branded to your company in seconds.

Analytics

Reach, engagement, applications, referrals, cost-per-applicant, and cost-per-hire dashboards.

Employer Branding

Authentic, employee-driven brand signal that paid ads can't replicate.

09Recruitment marketing metrics

Numbers your TA leader and CMO actually ask about.

Referral Participation

Lift employee participation from 5–10% on legacy tools to 60–90% on a mobile-first, SMS-enabled ERIN program.

Candidate Reach

10× the audience by activating employee networks instead of paid social alone.

Campaign Engagement

Click, share, and conversion rates that consistently outperform branded recruiting content.

Applications Generated

More qualified, higher-intent applicants per campaign than paid job boards.

Cost Per Applicant

Materially lower cost-per-applicant than paid channels, particularly on hard-to-fill and high-volume roles.

Referral Hires

Lift referrals as a share of total hires from single digits into the 30%+ range top programs deliver.

10Customer outcomes

Recruitment marketing teams running on ERIN.

ResultsCX
ERIN customer

Global, multi-country recruitment marketing program activating employees across 70k+ workforce.

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

Senior-living brand rebuilt its recruitment marketing motion around employee-driven hiring.

35%
of hires from referrals
98%
employee adoption
10×
increase in referral volume
11FAQ

Recruitment marketing, answered.

12Resources

Guides for recruitment marketing teams

Transform employees into recruiting advocates.

ERIN helps recruitment marketing teams increase reach, engagement, referrals, and hiring outcomes through employee-powered campaigns.