ERIN, AI Employee Referral Platform
Solutions · Talent Acquisition Leaders

The employee-powered hiring platform for Talent Acquisition leaders.

Increase referral hires, reduce recruiting costs, and build a scalable hiring strategy with employee referrals, AI-powered sourcing, and recruiting automation.

TA executive dashboard
Live
Referral hires
35%
+22 pts YoY
Cost-per-hire
−45%
vs. agency
Participation
73%
of workforce
Time-to-fill
−55%
on referrals
Referral hires · trailing 12 mo↑ trending
01Challenges facing Talent Acquisition leaders

Higher volume. Tighter budgets. A board that wants ROI.

Modern Talent Acquisition leaders are running a business inside a business, scaling recruiting, defending budget, proving ROI, and keeping recruiter teams effective in a market that keeps shifting. Employee-powered hiring is the lever that quietly fixes most of them at once.

Rising recruiting costs

Agency, job-board, and sourcing-tool spend keeps climbing while CFOs ask for the opposite. Cost-per-hire is the line every TA leader has to defend.

Hiring volume demands

Volume targets keep growing, for hourly, frontline, professional, and leadership roles alike, without proportional headcount additions to the TA team.

Talent shortages

The strongest candidates aren't applying. Hard reqs sit open while recruiters burn cycles on channels that under-deliver.

Recruiter productivity

Senior recruiters get pulled into low-leverage work. Productivity per recruiter is now an executive-level metric, and a recurring board question.

Employee engagement

Legacy referral tools and disconnected job-share emails don't move participation. Without engagement, the cheapest hiring channel never scales.

Recruiting ROI

TA leaders are increasingly asked to prove ROI on every channel, referral, sourcing, agency, paid, with executive-ready numbers.

02Why employee referrals matter to TA strategy

Lower cost. Faster hires. Stronger retention. Better candidates.

Employee referrals are the only hiring channel that consistently wins on cost, quality, speed, and retention at the same time. That's why every modern talent acquisition strategy is increasingly built around employee referrals, warm introductions, and employee-network sourcing, and why ERIN exists.

45%
lower cost-per-hire vs. agency placements
55%
faster time-to-fill on referral hires
70%
higher 1-year retention on referred hires
higher response on warm intros vs. cold InMail
03How ERIN Refer supports your recruiting strategy

Enterprise employee referrals, wired into your ATS, HRIS, and payroll.

ERIN Refer is purpose-built for enterprise TA orgs. Multi-country bonus structures, advanced eligibility, compliance controls, and 70+ ATS / HRIS integrations, without the legacy bloat of a 10-year-old referral tool.

  • Enterprise employee referral platform built for global TA orgs
  • 70+ ATS integrations including Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse, SuccessFactors
  • Native HRIS integrations for eligibility and lifecycle automation
  • Tiered, automated bonus management across business units and countries
  • AI engagement campaigns aimed at the right internal networks
  • Mobile, web, text-to-refer, and QR-code participation
Referral hiring flywheel
Engaged employees
01
More referrals
02
Faster, cheaper hires
03
Better retention
04
More engagement
05
Employee network sourcing
Open req
Employees
Network
Warm intro
Hire
warm response
more candidates
55%
faster fills
04How ERIN Source expands TA reach

Unlock employee-powered sourcing without a platform rollout.

ERIN Source gives recruiters an immediate edge on every hard req. Paste a job URL, identify the employees most likely to know qualified candidates, and convert outreach with warm introductions or direct candidate outreach, without rolling out a full referral platform first.

  • Employee-powered sourcing, no platform rollout required
  • Recruiters paste any job URL to start sourcing in seconds
  • AI ranks employees most likely to know qualified candidates
  • Surface named 1st-degree connections inside employee networks
  • Trigger warm introductions or direct candidate outreach
  • Reduce LinkedIn Recruiter and agency dependency
05Executive metrics that matter

Numbers your CHRO, CFO, and board actually ask about.

Referral Hire Percentage

Lift referrals as a share of total hires from single digits into the 30%+ range top-performing programs deliver, and report it cleanly to the board.

Cost Per Hire

Employee referrals are the lowest-cost channel in the recruiting mix. Every referral hire offsets agency, sourcing, and job-board spend on the same role.

Time To Fill

Referral hires close materially faster than external channels, especially on hard-to-fill, senior, and high-volume reqs.

Employee Participation

Mobile-first, SMS-enabled referrals drive 60–90% participation in deskless and frontline workforces, not 5–10%.

Referral Quality

Higher offer-acceptance, higher 90-day pass rates, and stronger manager satisfaction than any other channel.

Retention

Referred hires consistently out-retain externally sourced hires, protecting the hiring investment and reducing rehire load.

06Enterprise capabilities

Built for global, multi-country, multi-policy TA programs.

Global programs

Run a single global referral program across regions, languages, and business units, with local policies and bonuses.

Multi-country support

Multi-country deployment with localized currency, language, bonus structures, and compliance settings.

Multiple referral policies

Different policies for different populations, corporate, hourly, contract, clinical, executive, in one platform.

Advanced eligibility rules

HRIS-driven eligibility by tenure, role, BU, location, employment status, and custom attributes.

Compliance controls

Auditable referral records, eligibility logs, and bonus payouts, built for legal, finance, and audit reviews.

Enterprise security

SOC 2, GDPR, SSO, role-based permissions, and enterprise data controls out of the box.

07What's in the platform

Everything a modern TA org needs in one platform.

ATS Integrations

Native two-way sync with Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse, SAP SuccessFactors, Lever, UKG, Bullhorn, Oracle, and 70+ more.

HRIS Integrations

Eligibility, lifecycle, payroll, and compliance powered by your HRIS, no manual list management.

Bonus Automation

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

Eligibility Automation

Policy-aware eligibility rules per business unit, role family, geography, and tenure.

Employee Portal

Branded employee experience across web, iOS, Android, SMS, and QR.

Mobile Referrals

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

SMS Referrals

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

AI Campaigns

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

Analytics

Funnel, source-of-hire, ROI, recruiter productivity, and program-health dashboards.

Candidate Discovery

ERIN Source surfaces qualified candidates inside employee networks for any open req.

Warm Introductions

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

Executive Reporting

Board-ready reports on referral mix, cost savings, time-to-fill, retention, and program ROI.

08Customer outcomes

TA leaders running on ERIN.

ResultsCX
ERIN customer

Global, multi-country referral program scaled across a 70k+ employee workforce.

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

Senior-living provider rebuilt their TA strategy around employee-driven hiring.

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

AI referral advisor for TA leaders.

ERIN Studio is a free AI toolkit for TA, recruitment marketing, and HR teams. Get program optimization recommendations, generate campaign copy, and benchmark referral bonuses, in minutes.

  • Free AI referral advisor for TA, recruitment marketing, and HR
  • Program optimization recommendations grounded in your data
  • Generate campaign copy, emails, social, and SMS in minutes
  • Bonus benchmarks and referral policy templates
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09FAQ

Talent acquisition strategy, answered.

10Resources

Guides for TA leaders

Build a modern talent acquisition strategy.

ERIN helps Talent Acquisition leaders increase referral hires, improve recruiting efficiency, and reduce hiring costs.