Employee Referral Policy
                     Employee Referral Policy
Power of networking
Why an organisation 
must go for employee 
referral?
Can get the best quality candidate
Best fit an organisation culture
One of the best recruitment channel
 Increases the retention rate 
Cost  effective
Time saving
 Increase networking
 Increases employee engagement
 Last but not the least you get  DIVERSE  TEAM! 
What objective  employee referral will solve????
 It will help to attract new candidate by involving existing 
employees 
To award an employee  for  referring the candidate 
Some definitions.....
Employee referral programme policy :It is a process 
wherein existing employee can forward a candidate profile 
for an opening in the organisation they are working for.
Employee referral bonus programme : It can be 
explained as a program wherein employer reward an 
employee with certain amount of money for suggesting a 
candidate for a particular vacant position in the company 
and the candidate finally get selected or hired.
 Internal referral  It can be defined as a term used when 
an employee suggest a candidate for an internal vacancy 
within the organisation and the candidate is being hired.
Who all can refer?
All regular employees of the company
Except  HR employees
Except Senior management team 
Except the hiring manager
Some points to note down.....
 Employee referral form must be filled in by referring 
employee
 Should be submitted to HR department by the referring 
employee
 
Continue.....
 Referral amount will be paid on completion of 3 months from 
date of joining of the candidate
Both the existing employee and the referred candidate should 
be on the payroll of the organisation and must be active 
employees 
 In case of duplication of referral amount, the employee who 
has first referred the candidate will be given preference. The 
first employee will be eligible for internal referral.
 In case a candidate directly come and submit resume, it will 
not be considered as employee referral.
Employee would not be eligible for any referral amount in 
case candidate resume already exists in company’s 
databank. 
Selection of referred candidate depends on merit. Making a 
referral does not mean final selection
 In Case the referred candidate has to work under the 
employee who has referred him in 3 months of joining no 
referral will be paid in this case. 
 If employee resign within the time duration of employee 
referral period, no employee referral will be paid to 
employee.
 Process of employee referral
Job opening is posted on company intranet page
The referred Employees view the vacancy 
candidate undergoes details on intranet/Notice board
normal interview and 
selection process, if 
selected, HR 
informed of the same
Employee refer the candidate if 
he/she has someone in contact by 
Recruiter crosscheck filling in the employee referral 
the details of the form
candidate  and 
sends form to HR 
Employee’s fills in all the details in the employee 
referral form 
Thank You !!!