SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter.
Last week, we asked: Are employee referrals your best source for hires?
- Yes, for some positions, 51%
- No, 22%
- Yes, for most positions, 21%
- We don’t track sources for hires, 6%
I’ll let you in on a little secret: Employee referrals has never been my best source of hire. It seems like every recruiting conference I ever went to was trying to tell me how we must boost employee referral rates because they give us the best source of candidates. I thought there was something wrong with me. It is nice to see that most, like myself, use employee referrals somewhat selectively. While referrals do make up a nice piece of the overall recruiting mix, I don’t know if it is worth investing significant resources in beefing it up.
Lance Haun is community director for ERE.net, the main guy over at Rehaul.com and a member of the SmartBrief on Workforce Advisory Board.
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Lance,
Good questions. There's a lot of upheaval in the recruiting market now. Some firms will always try to cut their cost per hire and some will always try to maximize their return on investment.
The latter hire effective recruiters who can source, assess, and deliver top performers.
Guess what, those recruiters aren't easy to find either.
Donna