Talent Knows Talent: Five Employee Referral Elements for the Modern Talent Acquisition Professional

A lot has been written about employee referral programs. Today a search engine query will return more information than any single organization can practically put into practice. It's difficult to know where to start making changes without understanding how a referral program works as a whole. With that in mind, we've condensed our own experience of speaking to more than 2,500 talent practitioners over the past seven years and refined the essence of what makes a great referral program into five actionable elements: Objectives, Incentives, Education, Communication, and Technology.