{"id":1605,"date":"2012-01-02T20:49:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T15:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2012-01-02T20:49:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T15:19:10","slug":"referrals-as-a-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/referrals-as-a-business-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Referrals as a business model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most companies have a referral program where employes can refer their acquaintances for positions in the company. The idea behind the program is simple, smart people have smart friends and you have a higher chance of finding a qualified person through a referral than a cold interview. <\/p>\n<p>I got the following email today which turns the entire concept on its head and tries to convince you to game the system:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a qualified professional in a reputed firm you are probably on the lookout for good candidates to refer. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to introduce Round One \u00e2\u20ac\u201c an innovative new platform that connects you to job seekers so you can refer those you choose:<\/p>\n<p>Once you sign up you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Receive profiles of candidates interested in your company via email, who you can unofficially interview over the phone<\/li>\n<li>Earn incentives from Round One for each candidate you speak with<\/li>\n<li>Refer candidates you choose, via your firms referral program and earn your company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s referral bonus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The third point makes is really clear what their selling point is: make money by referring candidates to your company. But instead of referring people you personally know are qualified for the position, you will be referring people you have talked to a couple of times on the phone and have know idea about. In essence you are acting like a head hunter but instead of being upfront about it you are gaming the company. <\/p>\n<p>I am sure that this practice would be discouraged in most companies and if a person is caught doing this they would face some action. Actually I would hope that this would be the case because this offer is dishonest and sneaky. If you really want to spend time headhunting you should start\/join a headhunter company. <\/p>\n<p>What do you folks think? Is this a smart idea, or just underhandedness and not something to be encouraged?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most companies have a referral program where employes can refer their acquaintances for positions in the company. The idea behind the program is simple, smart people have smart friends and you have a higher chance of finding a qualified person through a referral than a cold interview. I got the following email today which turns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}