Advantages and Disadvantages of Employee Referrals in Recruitment

Advantages and Disadvantages of Employee Referrals in Recruitment

Introduction

Recruitment is the practice of locating and hiring the best capable candidate for a position in an organization. This hiring can be from within or outside the organization. The recruitment procedure requires examining the prerequisites of the job, sifting and then selecting the potential candidates, hiring them and then orienting the new employees to the organization's environment (www.businessdictionary.com, n.d). There are many ways to hire someone, through job centres, job advertisements, recruitment agency and employee referrals.

Employee referrals are not a novel idea. They have been in use ...