Employee referral programs can be a benefit to hiring managers. Not only do employees identify potential candidates and eliminate the need for extensive searches and/or shuffling through mountains of ...

I find myself shocked by the large number of companies who underutilize the best and most efficient source of great candidates: employee referrals. Sure, two-thirds of companies have some sort of ...

Editors note: This is the ninth of ten columns by Rodney Apple on recruiting. As always, you can feel free to email me with your thoughts at [email protected]. Bob Trebilcock, editorial director, ...

Between the driver and technician shortages, not to mention the dearth of people interested in working in the trucking industry, you have to do whatever you can to attract and retain employees. One ...

Bowdoin College recognizes that employee referrals are an effective way to hire top talent. The Employee Referral Bonus Program rewards employees when their referral leads to a successful hire; the ...

Employee-referral programs (ERPs) are among the hottest trends in human resources. However, they are more than just a cool new idea for acquiring talent -- in many professionals’ eyes, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Many executives and HR professionals have mixed feelings about referral bonuses, i.e. rewarding employees who refer a candidate for an ...

Employee referrals are an inexpensive way to find new hires, but they are often poorly executed according to employee turnover expert Dick Finnegan. He is right, with good advice on incentives, but ...

The idea for Zao came when founder and CEO Ziv Eliraz was tasked at his previous company with opening a US office for an expanding international technology company. He needed to quickly build a US ...

Want to hire better workers who stick around longer? Look no further than your trusted external network! Employees who are hired from referrals are usually of higher quality. Plus, nabbing that ...