Employees as the best recruitment source

The HR Recruiters always have to solve the issue of the best recruitment source of job candidates for the company. Many of them believe in the power of the web-based recruitment, there are companies still using newspaper advertisement as the best recruitment source.

The companies have one thing in common. They usually forget about their own employees as the best recruitment source. Each one of us has a lot of friends and some close friends. We all know the company we work for and the corporate culture in the organization. The HR Recruiters do not use the employees as the best recruitment source as every single employee can recommend the job candidate for the company.

The employees can be used as the best recruitment source when they are satisfied in the company and they know about all the open job vacancies. The satisfaction of employees can be measured by the number of received job resumes from the friends of employees and the job vacancies have to be published and announced regularly.

The companies use the arguments of not being ethical to ask the employees to recommend their friend as potential employees for the organization. On the other hand, the job candidates understand the corporate culture and the basic expectations from the employees and the trial period is just a formal issue.

The HRM Function can also prepare the incentive program for employees to recommend their friends. It can be paid in two separate amounts. The incentives do not have to be huge; it should it considered as the recognition of employees recommending their friends and the effort with the whole recruitment process.

The employees can be the best recruitment source for the company, when it uses the employees smartly and provides the employees with the right information about job vacancies and the employees do not feel their recommendation as a nice extra.