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    started 39 days ago by

    As social networking becomes more and more common we are finding that the way our employees network professionally is changing as well.  Specifically, we are trying to determine if we might need to adapt our employee referral program to account for this shift.  Here are some questions I was hoping some of you might be able to answer.

    Who qualifies as an employee referral? Does the employee have to know the referral personally (ie attest to their performance)?

    How do you reward employees for referrals they don't actually know?

    What sort of cash bonsues do you provide for referrals who are hired?

    If you are an international company, do you have separate program guidelines and bonus levels for referrals who are hired outside of the US? How do they differ?

    Have you modified your employee referral program to account for social networking?  How?

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    • 1 point 21 days ago

      Good questions.

      I definitely don't think that the referrer should be familiar with another person's performance. Not a bad thing but that kind of defeats the whole concept of having a ERP that constantly encourages first person referrals. Double standards should not apply. Maybe the employee should be able to demonstrate (with credible measure) how and to what extent they are connected to the referral and then validate it with the person being referred?