Great Employees attract great employees
The employee referral program by softgarden
Are you recruiting still or are you winning talent already?
The benefits of the referral manager
- Increase your reach at low cost
- Set individual rewards
- Invite your team to share
- Simplify sharing of open jobs
- Define individual payout conditions
- Measure the success of referrals
- Integrate your recruiting
Increase your reach at low cost
With softgarden’s employee referral program, you can reach more candidates – even those who are not yet actively looking for a new position. And at a lower cost than with traditional recruiting
Set individual rewards
Vouchers, cash or non-cash benefits: you are free to choose – and set your referral rewards with just a few clicks.
Invite your team to share
All invitees are automatically informed about new jobs that can be recommended. You can specify for each job whether it should be included in the referral program.
Simplify sharing of open jobs
With the softgarden referral program, your employees can easily share open jobs with their network. Eight channels are predefined, from WhatsApp to LinkedIn to email.
Define individual payout conditions
For each job, you define the criteria that are linked to the payout. For example: Successful start of job or successful completion of probationary period.
Measure the success of referrals
Use our predefined reports – and find out, among other things, at the touch of a button: Which input channels accounted for what proportion of all recommendations – and which employees were the most diligent in recommending others.
Integrate your recruiting
The recommendation manager is seamlessly connected to softgarden’s applicant management system. Candidates’ responses end up directly in the system – and you have all data centrally in one place.
„Since we integrated employee referrals into our recruiting program, we have been able to show job seekers our unique working atmosphere in a much more authentic way and also reach passive talent. Almost every third application via our employee referral program is a match.“
Specialist Talent Acquisition at Damovo
Employees recruit employees
Turn your employees into brand ambassadors
Let your employees speak for you. Birds of a feather flock together: motivated employees know just as many candidates – and thus bring you into contact with promising employees and specialists.
Employee referrals strengthen your employer brand. The referral manager effectively supports your employer branding – nobody advertises your employer brand more effectively than your employees themselves.
Reduce time-to-hire
Fill vacancies faster
Use the advantage of trust: Potential applicants trust personal job recommendations. This increases the likelihood that they will apply for the recommended position.
Approach passive candidates: Referrals can be used to approach top candidates who are not actively looking for a new job – and are otherwise difficult to reach.
Find out how you can speed up your recruiting with softgarden
Explore new ways of recruiting
Digitize job referrals
Reach more candidates, easily: With a digital referral manager, your employees can share jobs effortlessly – in different channels, from WhatsApp to LinkedIn. The result: more and better recommendations.
Get started right away. The employee referral program from softgarden is ready to use immediately, designed to be user-friendly and uncomplicated to use. Your employees will love it!
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About softgarden
Leading recruiting software provider
Founded in 2003, softgarden has established itself as a leading recruiting software provider. We have made it our mission to help companies digitize their recruiting – and we are successful in doing so, as evidenced by the growing number of satisfied customers and multiple awards.
softgarden is headquartered in Germany and is also represented in the following countries: Austria, France and Switzerland.
Our software offering is complemented by a comprehensive media offering: thanks to high booking volumes, we offer job ads at particularly advantageous prices. Our portfolio includes over 1,200 job platforms, Google and social media – bookable individually or as a package with multiposting.
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The referrals end up in your softgarden Applicant Tracking System and run through your usual recruiting process.
You decide. It could be a voucher, a sum of money, a bike or anything else – it’s up to you.
Depending on whether you want to give the reward after the referred employee
starts in the company or completes their probationary period, your employee will receive a notification of the successful referral.
The softgarden Applicant Tracking System is essential to ensure that your employees are automatically notified of new jobs and you are able to evaluate the referral channel.
An employee referral programme is a recruiting tool, often a software or web app, which employees can use to recommend relatives, friends or acquaintances from their private network to their employer as potential employees. These programmes create an active referral network within the workforce, which speeds up and simplifies the search for new talent.