I wouldn’t personally refer anyone I’ve not worked with. What’s the point? Someone being smart isn’t enough, they have to be actually sane and normal to work with. You can be friends with people you wouldn’t want to work with. Someone I’ve not met would be a totally unknown quantity.
I would refer someone I'm friends with if I know them well, understand what they would be like to work with, and understand the job/company well enough.
After all, I've lived with some people that I never worked with. Surely I know them well enough to recommend them for jobs, even though I have not ever worked alongside them.
I wouldn't trust a referral from someone I don't work with either. Your reputation is on the line, if you don't have one to lose why should anyone care.
A referral program can have two very different purposes:
1. A trusted employee vouches for a potential employee they know personally or worked with before.
2. A way to collect applicants as an alternative or to complement job ads on page. This has the risk as other public referral programs, where it encourages affiliates to advertise the job in spammy and unethical ways, tarnishing the company's reputation.
A public referral program like targets the second purpose, while the author and many posters here assume it aims for the first.
This isn't a consequence of job referrals being public. It's a consequence of them being anonymous. If you saw the same referrer on all the referrals, it would be obvious that something is wrong. It should be obvious to the company that pays the referrals. Same problem as spam - if you can spam anonymously, spam gets out of hand.
I get a lot of these messages via LinkedIn. They say I'm a good candidate for a job, write something, and tell me if I'm interested to apply on this link.
Unsure if they are real recruiters, or bots. Most of the ones contacted me were based in either Nigeria or Pakistan.
I know it's prejudice, but anytime I click on a Profile and see either of those 2 countries, I immediately hit back and never ever respond/contact that person ever again. It sucks to be an actual good person from those countries, but I don't wanna be scammed
This is not a good defence against being scammed. Like if this is part of your strategy on not getting scammed you should probably go back to the drawing board.
In other words, you’re defense strategy against being scammed should survive talking to someone from these places
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[ 0.11 ms ] story [ 22.7 ms ] threadPeople employee-referring other people who they've never worked with, and don't even know at all on a personal level.
Ya'll are fucking crazy.
After all, I've lived with some people that I never worked with. Surely I know them well enough to recommend them for jobs, even though I have not ever worked alongside them.
1. A trusted employee vouches for a potential employee they know personally or worked with before.
2. A way to collect applicants as an alternative or to complement job ads on page. This has the risk as other public referral programs, where it encourages affiliates to advertise the job in spammy and unethical ways, tarnishing the company's reputation.
A public referral program like targets the second purpose, while the author and many posters here assume it aims for the first.
Anyone seeing this from the hiring side?
Unsure if they are real recruiters, or bots. Most of the ones contacted me were based in either Nigeria or Pakistan.
In other words, you’re defense strategy against being scammed should survive talking to someone from these places