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Five tips to increase participation in your Employee Referral Program Five tips to increase participation in your Employee Referral Program

5 Tips to Increase Participation in Your Employee Referral Program: ZALP

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Employee Participation is the most important factor for the success of any employee referral program. This is also the most challenging part of implementing a referral program. Here are the 5 most important tips listed by ZALP to increase participation in your referral program. ZALP helps organizations to create, launch and manage an effective employee referral program with minimum efforts. Visit www.zalp.com to know more.

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Five tips to increase participation in your Employee Referral Program

Five tips to increase participation in your

Employee Referral Program

Five tips to increase participation in your Employee Referral Program

Employee Participation is the most important factor for the success of an employee referral program. This is also the most challenging part of implementing a referral program. Getting employees to participate in the program can be made easier if the basics of the program are in place. Ignoring any one of the basics can prove to be fatal to the success of the program.

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Five tips to increase participation in your Employee Referral Program

Below are 5 top tips to increase participation in your employee referral program :

Five tips to increase participation in your Employee Referral Program

Communication and Responsiveness is the key to employee participation in the referral program. Ensure that the referral program is well marketed to draw attention to the program and its many highlights. This also includes workshops to take employees through the referral platform and the process steps involved in referring someone and earning rewards. Responsiveness of the program is another big requirement for employee participation. Responding to employee referrals within stipulated timelines gives employee’s confidence to keep referring in the future as well.

Effective Communication

Five tips to increase participation in your Employee Referral Program

Motivation through rewards and incentives is another hugely successful participation tool. A well designed reward program with compelling incentives, in cash or in kind can rev up participation from employees. Recognizing employee contributions in referral program on an everyday basis through small appreciation notes or gift cards are also big motivators in driving employee participation.

Relevant Rewards

Five tips to increase participation in your Employee Referral Program

Integrating social media network into the referral program can give a big boost to participation. Social is the buzz word as more and more people connect to each other in the virtual world and maintain an active social life in the online community. Providing employees social media facilities means that employees can easily share jobs online with their social connections and can also tap these connections easily through linking skills required with skills available with their connections.

Social media Integration

Five tips to increase participation in your Employee Referral Program

Five tips to increase participation in your Employee Referral Program

Gamification is the next big driver of employee participation and is becoming increasingly popular due to its quick adoption by employees. The use of game mechanics like leaderboard etc. lets employees compete against each other in a bid to reach the finish line first building up excitement and competition till the very end. Reward points are associated with each successful step forward keeping people involved and excited.

Gamification

Five tips to increase participation in your Employee Referral Program

Give continuous feedback to employees on the quality of their referrals and what they need to do to be able to refer better quality applicants.

Five tips to increase participation in your Employee Referral Program

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