Organizations need to realize that the employees within their organization are a key to a great talent pool and can be used to build great teams. Find simple steps to unleash the recruiting power of each of your employees with effective use of their own social networks.

1. How to turn
Good Employees to
Great Recruiters
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2. Hiring Issues
Faced by
an organization
• Ensuring a candidate’s professional as well
cultural fit with the organization is a crucial
task. Even after multiple rounds, organizations
end up making a bad hire.
• Competitors also target the same limited pool
of resources .
Competent employees are a critical factor for any
company’s success. Human Resource is one asset
which can make or break the organization.
• Evaluating that the new hire be stable and
loyal is an important part of the prerecruitment process
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3. Solutions
• In depth interviewing Process and behavioral and
technical evaluations based on administered tests.
• Interview panel consisting of senior management
representing different departments
• Detailed job analysis and job description listing out the
attributes of the person needed for each role
• Detailed process of prescreening and reference checks to
weed out completely undesirable candidates
Employee Referral Programs are an
important aid to quality recruitment
• Employee Referral Program – One of the most productive
hiring techniques using company’s current employees to
refer prospective candidates because “ Good Talent
knows Good Talent ” .The success mantra of this
technique is highly dependent upon the participation of
current employees.
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4. Employee Referral Program
Encourage participation
Here are some tips to turn your employees into smart
recruiters :
• Involve Senior Management. Ask them to address the
employees about the usefulness and relevance of
employee referral program.
• Ask the employees, who they think will be the right fit
for the organization. Let them do the job analysis, make
job descriptions and list out the skill sets and attributes
of the potential employee so that they are involved from
step one.
Success of any employee referral program depends
upon the participation,efficiency , willingness and
motivation of current employees.
• Broaden their horizon by increasing the pool of the
potential candidates encompassing not only their
acquaintances but also their ‘friends’.
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5. Employee Referral Program
Harness the power
of Social Media
• Educate your employees about what is happening in the
organization and ask them to promote the same through
social media.
• Tell them why the organization is a great place to work and
what are the benefits of associating with them.
• Employ social recruiting tools to help employees match the
job descriptions with a candidates qualifications to ensure
they reach out to the right person, increasing their
productivity.
Social Media has changed the face of
recruitment & has evolved as one of the
most efficient recruitment tools
• Have training sessions with a person knowledgeable about
social networking who can help employees unleash the
potential of their social networks.
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6. Employee Referral Program
Communication is the key
• Keep your employee referral program simple to
understand. Employees will not be willing to
participate in any tedious, difficult to understand
and time consuming process.
• Ensure employees are aware about the open and
priority requirements in your organization on a
regular and frequent basis
The need of referrals not only for the
organization, but also for the employees,
needs to be stressed.
• Employees should be made aware that why the new
hiring is important for the organization. A brief on
the new project which can be shared with the
employees goes a long way to ensure the success of
the program.
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7. Employee Referral Program
Rewards & Recognition
• Cash rewards is one of the most preferred and
motivating referral reward.
• Reward all referrals in some way, to keep employees
motivated and encouraged to participate.
• Organize competitions between departments for
example rewards for the team having maximum no. of
hires etc.
Employee’s motivation levels are a key
determinant of The program’s success
• Non monetary awards like public recognition to
employees , movie tickets , meal vouchers, personalized
thank you notes also go a long way in motivating
employees.
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8. Employee Referral Program
Transparency and Efficiency
• Provide feedback whether it is good or bad so
that they can focus on the right talent.
• Most of the employees get frustrated when
they don’t get to know the status of their
referrals. In the absence of any feedback they
are less likely to refer someone for the job.
Feedback and speed are 2 crucial elements
that make or break the program
• Complete the process quickly. Once you start
getting the referrals, it is very important to
shortlist and conduct the interviews as soon as
possible.
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9. Employee Referral Program
Keep improving the program
• Evaluate your Employee Referral Program regularly.
• Take feedback from employees
effectiveness and ease of use.
regarding
the
• The most important criteria to judge the success of any
employee referral program is the number of employees
participating in the same.
• Always sign up the new employees on the referral
program and encourage them to participate in the same.
Continuous evolution is the key to growth
• Introduce program changes, new technology and
recruiting tools in your employee referral program
based on feedback.
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10. Sources
• Inc. 5 keys to Recruiting the best of best.
• CareerBuilderCommunications – Referral Madness
• Everything Business Corp : Turn Your Staff into an Unstoppable Recruiting Force
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11. About Zalp
ZALP is a unique SaaS (software-as-a-service)
based social employee referral software
designed to help organizations efficiently
source the highest quality candidates through
the most valuable source of recruitment–
Employee Referrals.
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12. About Zalp
Empowered with breakthrough features that
tap into the full potential of Social Media and
an extremely user friendly interface, ZALP is
every organization’s perfect Social Employee
Referral and Social Recruiting Software.
%
ZALP helps organizations boost their employee
referral output by upto 72%
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13. Why Zalp
7 easy and convenient ways to refer
The success of any employee referral program depends on one primary factor:
Employee Participation
ZALP gives employees not one but seven easy and convenient
ways to make referrals. This ensures increased employee
participation like never before.
ZALP’s social media integrated features make the referral
process for employees not only easy but also fun.
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14. For more information, visit
www.zalp.com
To book a free demo, drop a mail to
info@zalp.com
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