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EMPLOYEE REFERRAL INCENTIVES

Hire faster with an experiential employee referral program.

Motivate your top employees to refer top talent with rewards that build buzz.

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Accelerate your hiring efforts with an exciting employee referral program.

Over 50% of your employees are considering new roles, and as a result, you need to proactively address your hiring goals. In a candidate-driven market, replacing talent can be challenging and expensive—costing on average 6-9 months salary to backfill an open role.

But what if you could hire great talent faster, and more efficiently? Let’s hit your hiring goals with the help of exciting employee referral incentives.

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Hit hiring goals with experiential incentives

Accelerate your hiring efforts with an exciting referral program.

The Great Resignation is keeping us up at night. Over 40% of your employees are considering new roles, and as a result, you need to proactively address your hiring goals. In a candidate-driven market, replacing talent can be challenging and expensive—costing on average 6-9 months salary to backfill an open role.

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But what if you could hire great talent faster, and more efficiently? Let’s hit your hiring goals with the help of exciting employee referral incentives.

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THE PROBLEM

Cash referral incentives won’t hit your hiring goals.

Cash is a purely rational incentive. It doesn’t hook into our emotions, shape our identity, or create new stories to share. So even in the best-case scenario, most companies that offer cash bonus incentives see dwindling referral volume just months after their program launch. You have big hiring goals to meet, so you don’t have time to waste. You need a good employee referral incentive that creates sustained buzz and excitement.

OUR SOLUtion

Experiential employee referral incentives that motivate (a ton of) participation.

Your reality? You need an effective employee referral program that’s exciting and easy to socialize, but isn’t a burden to administer. Enter Blueboard. We make it easy to incentivize your employees to refer top talent with their choice of a bucket list experiential reward. Like diving the Great Barrier Reef, relaxing at a yoga retreat in Tulum, or chasing the Northern Lights. Real adventures that employees can’t wait to share when they get back, keeping your employee referral program consistently top of mind.

It’s a win-win situation. You build a qualified candidate pipeline, and your employees get to spend quality time with loved ones making new memories.

Blueboard results speak for themselves

CASE STUDY

Our results speak for themselves.

Facing disappointing employee feedback, low participation rates, and an audacious referral goal, Tradeshift needed to find an alternative to cash bonus incentives, fast. 

With Blueboard, Tradeshift now offers employees who refer great potential candidates their choice of a life-changing experience. We make it easy to send employee referral incentives, track utilization, analyze feedback, and pull reports through a centralized platform—saving the team hundreds of hours of administrative time.

By partnering with Blueboard, Tradeshift was able to 2.5X their referral volume.

  • After launching their Blueboard referral incentives program, Tradeshift’s new hire by referral percentage jumped from 16% to 38%*.
  • They exceeded their stretch goal of 35% as soon as year one.
  • Now 3 years in, 40% of all new hires are sourced through their successful employee referral programs, reflecting continued excitement and participation.

*Tradeshift internal hiring data.

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Percentage of hires by employee referral

Motivate employee referral volume with rewards that wow.

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“Having a program that we could reinforce every month really kept the program fresh. Everyone was talking about it. It was really cool to see all of the buzz being created.”
Traci M.
Director, Global Strategic Cloud Staffing
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EMPLOYEE REFERRAL resources

Here are some great employee referral program resources to check out:

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Tradeshift Amplify Your Hiring Volume

Tradeshift exceeded new hire by referral goals by 2.5X through exciting and shareable experiential employee incentives.

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