If it's any general company profile then it's okay. If it's your own team then make sure they atleast check all the boxes

Founder

Hi all,  I have recently joined a new company and a lot of people (mostly people I don't know) are reaching out for referrals. I know the time is tough. How do you all decide whom to refer? Friends...

Hi all,

I have recently joined a new company and a lot of people (mostly people I don't know) are reaching out for referrals. I know the time is tough.
How do you all decide whom to refer? Friends and people you know are definitely there. You can't be referring everyone as it decreases your credibility if they are not suitable for the role or don't get hired.
Also, how do you say no to such requests?

Thank you!

Referrals - How to decide?

Product Manager

Referrals - How to decide?- Grapevine

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

So, I've recently joined a company and I've been getting a lot of requests for referrals from folks on LinkedIn whom I don't know personally. 

I feel for these folks because I was in a similar situation a few months ago, trying very hard to switch.

But, I'm sort of confused as to - should we refer someone whom we have never met personally? Does the concept of "referral" allow that?

What do you guys think?

Regarding referrals.

Software Engineer

I mean its so hard to get a referral or is it just me? Basically,

1. Everyone on linkden is basically an influencer, though with a legit experience and ofcourse technical skills, its more like everyone is just there to flaunt and I practically see no one actually being helped or helping.

2. Only on a personal level, I guess having met them, do people take you seriously, that still is a low probability.

So my question is, if you were an average Joe in this job market, how would you approach people to have them actually land an interview let alone be selected?

Where do you guys get referrals from?

Here in the grapevine app itself i got several referrals. All the interviews I am attending now are firm referrals. Whether I clear the interview or not is second. But I could see many folks coming up to help by giving referrals. If we get selected its win-win situation we get the job and they get money too.

Software Developer

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Hi, guys

I'm just wondering about the general practice of referrals followed by everyone here.

Do you only refer people you've worked with and no to be good, or do you forward referrals of unknown people as well?

A couple of my former colleagues periodically hit me up, I mostly ignore their messages (cause all they'll message is "Hi" or "Hey" and ain't no one's got the time for that) but I know it's about getting them a job (because of all the times in the past I've been polite and responded to their "Hi"s). While I do not currently have enough clout in the industry to push around referrals, the thing is, they're simply not good at their jobs, or at least upto my standards and I'd feel uncomfortable referring someone their name knowing they won't do a good job! I don't want my referrals to reflect badly on me... So, just wondering about people's opinions here!

Referring people you don't know or know aren't good at their jobs

Lawyer

People out here be referring like the referral bonus is their side income hustle.
Takes the entire credibility out of a referral when they do this.

[LinkedIn cringe] Mass referrals

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Context - Google asks it's employees this question when they refer a candidate for a role.

Now my question is,  what is the expectation from a referral candidate in general for any company? What value is given by the HM for this question, what would they be looking for in an answer??

Why should we hire your referral?

I am seeing LinkedIn posts everyday about how people are starting a new position in a different organisation. I've tried LinkedIn job posts, asking for referrals, trying less popular job portals, applying directly in career pages of companies, and changing my resume multiple times. But no luck. Even if the resume gets shortlisted now, there's no further action. 

I can see multiple people giving seminars on how to switch jobs but everyone has the same things to say.

Any suggestions?

How are you successfully switching jobs?

As a fresher, how to ask for a referral on linkedin in a professional way to increase the chances of getting referral?

Referrals

I am a '21 graduate from a Tier 1 college (old IIT) and have had short stints as product manager at a couple of startups. About a year back, I decided to startup but after a few months, realized that startup idea wasn't worth pursuing. 

Researched around a few startup ideas and finally landed upon a good one in D2C space. But the problem is financing. I don't have much saving and friends / family network wouldn't be able to finance this. I really want to pursue this idea but finance is becoming a hindrance. 

So started looking for job opportunities about 3 months back. I have been exploring work opportunities in product / founder office / EIR roles or other generalist role. 

Job hunt process has been frustrating to say the least. Getting very few calls. In most cases, people are ghosting after couple of rounds of interview or assignment. In some cases, after getting through 2-3 rounds, I got to know that opening has been closed temporarily. Most HRs don't even have the decency to give feedback. 

I don't intend to work in job for long anyway. As soon as I have the job, I plan to start working on my business idea and quit as soon as I have enough financial leeway. 

How should I go about job hunt process? I have been trying to connect with folks on LinkedIn in whose company job openings are there. Apart from this, I have been connecting with founders from recently funded startups. Naukri / Instahyre and IIM Jobs are other portals I have been looking on. Anything I should do differently here? 

Looking forward to hearing your suggestions / experience.

How bad is the job market?

Just a advice: 
  
 Never do the assignment for any company.This company will ghost you every time after the assignment or will offer lower pay / lower position. 
  
 Companies just try to get ideas via the assignment

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

I am 3YOE software test Engineer and want switch company but not getting calls any Idea how to get refferals and calls from recruiter??

How to get refferals

Test Engineer

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Thinking of referring people here to G India.
Please +1 in the comments and I will reach out via DMs to help understand your profile.

Googler here. Does anyone want referrals to Google?

Hi Everyone,

I'm looking for a HR Professional who can hire people (with backdoor options).

Because nowadays people with good knowledge are not valued. Companies need experience only. How a fresher can get experience without anyone hiring them.

This issue is not only for freshers, this is happening with the people who have experience and want to change their career field.

Summary: You refer the people who are looking for a job they'll pay you a referral bonus. You got money, people got a Job.

It's a Win-Win

Earn Referral bonus

Pre Sales

I have seen some companies post about them looking to hire a lot of people and ask people to reach out to them over DM (if their DM is even open in the first place lol), but when I do, I never hear anything back. I have 4 yoe and have applied to so many of these companies, reached out to people working there, but no one has ever replied back. Why do they even say that their DMs are open in the first place? I don't know how to even get my resume in front of an actual person working there, and my resume is not even that bad. Like how do people get interviews in these companies in the first place? I have applied so many times but never actually got contacted by any HR. Any tips will be much appreciated.

[Rant] How do you get interviews in big companies like FAANG, PhonePe, Rippling, Atlassian, etc?

Getting interviews at FAANG india is not hard at all. Especially Amazon would literally interview anyone who knows basic coding and is alive. Have blocked multiple of their recruiters. 
  
 Try reaching out to folks working in these companies on LinkedIn.

I have never taken referral before. Just applied through career sites and portals. If I have reached out to an employee of a company with a quick message about my experience, skills, and resume, and he/she agrees to refer me, what are the further steps? What happens next? Do they take my resume and forward it to the hiring team or manager? I just want to understand how the procedure continues. I have never gone through the referral process before.

How does referral work.

So.. Around 2 years back I got my first payout of 50k as a referral bonus for a friend I referred to my company. 

Around same time.. My team had a few positions.. So i put it on linkedin and got a decent response.. Got another referral.. 

Next year.. I decided to scale it.. I started putting multiple posts on linkedin for positions across my company and started streaming the responses on google sheet. Having a big linkedin network of 20k helped. 

This year I scaled it to 4L a year... But then it all stopped after one fine day there was a HR circular to not undertake commercial level sourcing of profiles on linkedin.. And only refer ppl I know. 

It's a different matter that I could manage to source almost 20-40x more relevant profiles as compared to my HRs even with their third party agencies. More than half of my team members are my referrals :). 


While scaling this hustle.. This is what I learnt. 

1) You will get lots of spam.. I feel sry for some candidates .. But sometime even civil grads will apply for semiconductor jobs. 

2) Better to invite applications using a google form with proper filters.. Only serious ppl will apply. 

3) Do not refer everyone.. Reduce your effort and only refer candidates who have a chance. 

4) Engage with candidates, followup after interviews. 

5) Do not trust your employer will automatically honor referral payouts if you don't track.. I literally lost more than 2L coz of inefficient referral tracking system. 

6) Control your greed.. Even if you scale up.. Limit yourself to a decent no.. Say 2L a year.. Referral policy is for company's benifit.. They will shut you down one way or another if they find you are gaining. 

7) Handling it at scale is a lot of work.

What Using/misusing employee referral policy has taught me.

Never heard using referal as a side hustle. Great job

Data engineer

I'm saying this because Microsoft has posted more than 240 software engineering jobs in India in just the last month, bringing the total to 547 software engineering jobs in India alone. However, despite this large number of job postings, I haven't seen a single new employee announcement on LinkedIn for any of these positions.

Does nobody want to join Microsoft, or what?

Is Microsoft posting fake jobs in India

How the Referal works...actually speaking...isn't there be fair opportunity instead of referrals....because it feels like big favour is being taken and also favouritism etc comes to play.... and how it works in big four or big 50 firms..?? 

Is that managers time to time inform its team about referral drives ??

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