Show your trainees the steps to turning a referral into a new employee to demonstrate how the process works, and to make sure they understand that a bad hire is not entirely their fault. Because some employees will remain cautious, provide an anonymous referral submission option for them so your employees can’t take the blame and your company still benefits from referrals.

Most companies have an abundance of future recruitment officers at their disposal, but don’t know how to use them. Add recruitment strategies to your company’s standard training method so new employees can openly discuss their ideas about the subject with their managers. If possible, make it part of everyone’s workday as well.

While training new employees, make it clear why recruitment is essential to the continued success of the company, and give them opportunities to practice speaking to a possible referral in an appropriate and convincing manner. Involving your workers in these kinds of activities builds their confidence as brand ambassadors.

Once your employees know how to recruit valuable individuals, tell them which positions you’re looking to fill. If several employees each recruit someone different for the same position, it creates disorder in the workplace and in the hiring process. Build a digital chart or template that clearly shows which positions are open and what skills they require with any additional qualities an ideal candidate for each position should possess. Experience, skills, and personality traits should all be specified in the template.

Brand ambassadors are hard to come by only because they don’t know how to put their enthusiasm for the company to good use. Make recruitment lessons part of your standard employee training regimen to bring great recruiters out of the woodwork. They’ll feel good about the referrals they make, and you’ll consistently obtain new talent. Recruitment truly does benefit everyone.