As the economy improves and recruiting top talent becomes more difficult, focus on employee referrals. They routinely produce the highest volume and quality of hire. If you are getting less than 40 percent of your hires from your employee referral program, here are the top 10 actions that I have found will dramatically improve your ERP results.
Prioritize your jobs – the best programs do not cover all jobs and instead prioritize and focus on high-impact and hard-to-fill jobs. Don’t waste employee time and burden your program’s administration with “junk referrals” and referrals for jobs that can be adequately filled through normal sources.
via The Top 10 Actions for Dramatically Improving Employee Referral Program Results – ERE.net.