With the year coming to an end, if you have been in the stock market in the last few weeks you could have thought the world was ending, it is a good time to sit back and review your recruitment strategy and look to reduce your costs for 2009.

Today you are probably overwhelmed with consultants and companies providing options on how to upgrade/streamline/change/improve your strategy and reduce costs of recruiting. Here at 2Vouch we believe in reducing your costs to recruit as well, and not just by using our tools (although they will reduce your costs). So we have gone back into our archives and found these ten employee referral program tips from BINC Professional Search.

Recruiting should be an evident priority from the top down

There should be a clear reward system in place to reward referrals and employee recruiting

Setup training sessions that actually teach your team how to more effectively use their own personal network to recruit

Incorporate social networking into your recruiting plan

Send your team members to conferences and arm them with the tools to recruit

Host recruiting events at your office

Have somebody in HR or Recruitment (or a Direct Manager) go through  their address books and identify potential candidates and contact them directly saying you are looking for great staff

Offer additional bonuses for helping to retain the new hires or split the initial bonus into two halves

Set up a system to track all of Activity

Make a Big Deal Every time a Hire is Made Using your Program

By Michael Specht, Consultant to 2Vouch on Social Media and Recruiting

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