Employee
referral program
Cost-effectively increase your reach and find
top talent through employee referrals.
Employee referrals made easy
With the referral manager, everyone benefits: recruiters, employees,
and referred applicants.
Benefits of our employee referral
program
Use the softgarden Referral Manager to increase your reach,
attract better applications, and seamlessly integrate your
recruiting process.
Cost-effectively increase your reach
With softgarden’s employee referral programme, you can reach more candidates – including passive talent – at a lower cost than traditional recruiting.
Receive better applications
Employees often recommend candidates they know and consider suitable. This means better candidates with a better fit for your company culture.
Integrate your recruiting
The referral manager is directly connected to softgarden’s applicant management software. All candidate responses are centrally stored in the system.
softgarden in numbers
2 million
simple application processes per year
60 %
time savings for your recruiting possible
50 k
users use softgarden monthly
Luisa Nengel
Specialist Talent Acquisition at Damovo
“Since we integrated employee referrals into our recruiting, we convince job seekers much more authentically of our unique working atmosphere and also reach passive talents. Almost every third application through our employee referral program is a match.”
Features for the perfect employee
referral program
Optimized features for successful employee referrals – easy sharing, individual rewards,
and detailed success measurement.
Simplify sharing job postings
With the softgarden employee referral program, your employees can easily share open jobs with their network. Eight channels are predefined, from WhatsApp to LinkedIn to email.
Set individual rewards
Vouchers, cash amounts, or tangible assets: You have the freedom to choose – and set your referral rewards with just a few clicks.
Invite your employees to refer
All invitees will be automatically informed about new referable
positions. You can specify for each position whether it will be
included in the employee referral program.
Define individual payout conditions
You set the criteria for each job that are tied to the payout. For example: Successful job start or passed probation.
Measure referral success
Use our predefined reports – and find out at the push of a button,
among other things: Which entry channels contributed to all
referrals – and which employees referred the most.
Participation at a glance
Keep track of how well the option to recommend friends for jobs is being received by your colleagues
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Seamless Integration for Your Recruiting
With softgarden, you can effortlessly extend your existing HR solutions and benefit from
the powerful functionality of a professional applicant management system.
Employee referral programs,
reimagined
Prepare for the future of your recruiting with softgarden’s referral manager.
Make your team brand
ambassadors
Let your employees speak for you: Motivated employees know suitable candidates and strengthen your employer brand. Thus, the referral manager supports employer branding – because no one promotes you better than your own team.
Fill open positions faster
Leverage the trust advantage: Potential applicants trust personal recommendations and are more likely to apply. Employee referrals also work for passive candidates. Attract talents who are not actively looking or are hard to reach.
Utilize new recruiting channels
With a digital referral program, employees can easily share jobs across various channels, from WhatsApp to LinkedIn. The result: more and better applications. The referral manager is ready to use, user-friendly, and straightforward.
Safety first
Certified Quality
softgarden is certified according to ISO 9001 and ISO 27001, ensuring high product and
service quality. Our servers are hosted in ISO/IEC 27001-certified data centres in
Germany, providing the highest security standards for the storage and availability of your
data as well as your applicants’ data.
Feature overview
Select rewards individually for the job and motivate employees to find new colleagues.
All information on the referral program and the option to register by email centrally on one website
Employees are automatically informed about new jobs for referral.
Only the email addresses you have approved can create a user account in the Referral Manager
FAQ Employee referral program
Yes. All personal data is processed and stored in accordance with the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
The referrals end up in your softgarden Applicant Tracking Software 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.