Michael Brown Tells How His Company Gets 50% of Hires Through Referrals

Michael Brown is the Vice President, of Talent at SHYFT Analytics based in Waltham Massachusetts, in today's show we'll find out how they generate 50% of their hires through employee referrals. Follow him on Twitter or connect on LinkedIn.

TOPICS

• What does SHYFT analytics do and what types of roles are you recruiting for?
• How big is your recruiting team?
• Your ATS is Lever, what was the previous ATS at SHYFT?
• What was the switch like...how long did it take, etc?
• Favorite feature of Lever?
• What else is part of your HR tech stack?
• Let’s talk about your referral program…describe its structure and how you make payouts...”Before rolling it out, our referral rate was around 30 percent, and we wanted to get to 40. I never imagined we’d make it to 50 percent.”
• Explain how it works and tell us why Lever enabled to get you to 50%?
• Tell us your best sourcing story about how you got creative in finding someone that you eventually hired? -How do you prefer vendors approach you about pitching their products?
• Last words of advice do you have for other employers who want to boost their referral program?

Sponsored by the folks at Lever.

And also by the team at Hiretual.