Candidates can be fetched through a referral campaign in which Employees and Candidates can participate.
Written by Shruti Patel
You can run a Referral Campaign with your organization's employees to attract more relevant candidates for a Job vacancy. You can also run a Referral Campaign in your existing Candidate database.
To activate the referral campaign into the system, users must go to the 'Admin' Menu from the left-hand side and visit System Configuration under the Global Setting Tab.
Navigation Link: https://app.ismartrecruit.com/admin
Click on the "Referral Management" feature from the verticle menu on the left-hand side and turn the flag ON to enable Referral Management.
Note: Please click the Update button at the bottom of the page and re-login the system to implement the changes.
Users can follow the below steps for Running a Referral Campaign for a particular Job.
Step 1: Navigate to the Job module on the left-hand menu and click on any specific job to open the Job View dialogue box.
Navigation Link: https://app.ismartrecruit.com/openJob
Step 2: On the right-hand side, there is a “Share” icon; by hovering over it, you will get the option to Run a Referral Campaign.
Step 3: You can select who can participate in the referral campaign from Candidates and Employees.
Manage Master Employees list
In the Employee Module, you can manage a master list of employees among whom you wish to run the Referral.
You can access the Employee Module from the Three dots icon at the bottom left corner of your screen.
Navigation Link: https://app.ismartrecruit.com/employeeManagement
Click the Add Employee button to create employee data in the system.
After clicking the Add Employee button, you will see a pop-up form Add Employee, where you need to fill in all the details and click the save button to save it.
When you click on the Run Referral button for a particular job, you will get an option to select to send referral requests to Employees or Candidates.
Click on the "Send referral request to Employees" button and select the Department from the Employee Department list.
Click on "Run campaign" to send an email to all Selected Employees asking them to submit their references.
Example of Email to Employees
The Email that Employees will receive will contain information as shown below.
The email will contain two separate links. One is for Employees to share with their contacts to submit applications for the Job, and another is where they can track the list of applicants who apply using their link.
To include Candidates in the Referral Campaign, you will first need to make a Candidate eligible for the referral campaign. You can mark a Candidate eligible in their profile details.
Include the candidate in a referral campaign
Navigation Link: https://app.ismartrecruit.com/quickSearch
Step 1: Click on the Candidate Module from the vertical bar on the left-hand side and multi-select the candidates you wish to include in the referral campaign.
Step 2: Click More Actions at the bottom and select Include in the referral campaign.
Run Referral for Candidates
Run the Referral for Candidates from inside the Job details and click on Yes to send an email to the available Candidates.
Navigation Link: https://app.ismartrecruit.com/openJob
Now Click on Run Campaign.
You can review your Referral Activity through the Referral Report. Through this report, you can evaluate the progress of referred candidates in the system.
Suppose you are running an internal Rewards & Recognition program based on successfully hiring referred candidates for your employees. In that case, you can refer to this report to determine the list of qualified Employees.
Navigation Link: https://app.ismartrecruit.com/referralReport
