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Employee referrals that go straight to your hiring board

Employees refer people from your job pages after signing in with their work email. Each referred person takes the same interview as every other applicant. Employees can see where each person they referred stands, without asking HR.

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Most referral programs stall after the referral is sent

Employees want to help. They stop when referrals disappear into email and nobody tells them what happened.

Referrals arrive by email and chat

A resume forwarded to a recruiter is easy to lose. So is the note the employee wrote about the person.

Nobody can tell if the bar was the same

When a friend’s referral skips a step, hiring managers cannot say if that hire met the same standard as everyone else.

Employees hear nothing back

They message HR for updates. When no answer comes, they stop referring people they know.

What a referral program in Goodfit includes

Who

  • Approved company email domains
  • Employees verify their work email once
  • Referrals turned on job by job

Refer

  • Name, email, resume and a short note
  • An email to the candidate that names the employee
  • Resume scored as soon as it arrives

Screen

  • Same stages and scoring as every applicant
  • Referrer and note shown on the card
  • Duplicates and self-referrals blocked

Track

  • A “My referrals” page for each employee
  • Pending, Interviewing, Hired or Closed
  • Sourcing report compares referrals with other sources
  • New referrals can post to Slack

Referrals land on the same hiring board with the employee’s name on each card

In Goodfit, a referral is a candidate on the job’s board. The card names the employee who referred them. Your team works referrals in the same place as every other applicant.

  • Filter any board to show only referred candidates
  • Each card shows the referrer and the date, and opens to their note
  • New referrals can post to your team’s Slack channel
  • There is no separate referral tool or form to keep up

Only people with your company email can submit referrals

Add your company email domains once. Anyone who signs in with a work email on those domains can refer. You do not invite people one by one. Employees verify their email before their first referral.

  • Add several domains for subsidiaries and acquired companies
  • Cover subdomains with a pattern like *.northwind.io
  • Turn referrals on job by job

Employees refer someone from the job page

Jobs with referrals turned on show a “Refer a candidate” button. The employee adds the person’s name, email, resume and a short note. Goodfit scores the resume against the job as soon as it arrives.

  • Resumes can be PDF, Word or image files up to 10 MB
  • The note reaches your hiring team with the candidate
  • The referred person lands under Prospects on the job’s board

The referred person gets an email that names your employee

As soon as the referral is saved, Goodfit emails the person a link to the job. The email says which employee referred them and includes the note. If they reply, the reply goes straight to the employee.

  • The link takes them to the job and its application
  • They apply and interview like any other candidate
  • Your hiring team sees the same note on the candidate’s card

Referred candidates take the same interview as everyone else

A referred candidate goes through the same stages as every other applicant. They answer the same questions and are scored the same way. Their card shows who referred them and the note they left. If a referred person scores well, they move up the ranked list like anyone else.

  • Same questions and scoring as every other applicant
  • Each referrer and their note appear on the candidate’s card
  • Play the interview recording from the same card

Employees see where each referral stands without asking HR

Each employee has a “My referrals” page. It lists every person they referred, the job and the date. Each person shows one of four statuses, and the status changes as your team moves them. Your recruiters answer fewer “any update?” messages.

  • Pending: your team has the referral, and the person has not started yet
  • Interviewing: the person is in the AI interview, a test or a panel round
  • Hired or Closed: your team has made its decision for that job
  • Employees never see scores, notes or recordings

Goodfit stops duplicate referrals before they reach your team

If the person is still a prospect, a second referral is added to their card and the first employee keeps the credit. If your team already moved them forward or closed them out for that job, the form says so. Employees cannot refer themselves. People outside your approved domains cannot submit at all.

  • If two employees refer the same person, both are recorded and the first keeps the credit
  • Each referral is checked against the job’s pipeline before it is saved
  • The form tells the employee why a referral was not accepted

You can compare referrals with every other source

The sourcing report lists each source with its applicants, hires, conversion rate, average score and time to hire. Referrals sit next to self-applied candidates, job board imports and email applications.

  • Download the report as a CSV file or open it in Google Sheets
  • See which referred people were hired, and when
  • Use the list of referred hires to decide who gets a bonus

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Start a referral program in three steps

  1. 1

    Add your domains

    Enter your company email domains once in settings.

  2. 2

    Turn on referrals for a job

    Jobs with referrals on show a “Refer a candidate” button to signed-in employees.

  3. 3

    Share the job with staff

    Post the job link where your team talks. Referrals land on the board with the employee’s name.

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The same rubric for everyone

Everyone is scored on the same rubric, and accent doesn’t count against anyone. Each score links to that moment in the recording.

No app to install

People join by phone or from a browser link. There is nothing to download.

Works with the tools you already use

All integrations
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Google Calendar
  • LinkedIn
  • ATS and HR systems connected during setup

FAQ

Questions teams ask about Employee referrals

Who can submit a referral?
Anyone who signs in with an email on a domain you approved. Add several domains for subsidiaries, or cover subdomains with a pattern like *.yourcompany.com. People outside those domains cannot submit.
Do employees need a Goodfit account?
They sign in with their work email and verify it once. They do not join your hiring team or see your pipeline.
What does the referred person receive?
An email that names the employee who referred them, with their note and a link to the job. If they reply, the email goes to that employee.
Do referred candidates skip the screen?
No. They go through the same stages, questions and scoring as every other applicant. The referrer’s name and note sit on their card, so your team has the context.
What does the referrer see?
A “My referrals” page lists everyone they referred, the job and the date. Each person shows Pending, Interviewing, Hired or Closed. Employees never see scores, notes or recordings.
Can someone be referred twice?
If the person is still a prospect, a second referral is added to their card and the first employee keeps the credit. If your team already moved them forward or closed them out for that job, the form does not accept the referral.
Can an employee refer themselves?
No. The form blocks a referral for the signed-in employee and tells them why.
How does our team hear about new referrals?
Turn on new application posts in your Slack settings, and each referral posts to your hiring channel. Every referral also shows under Prospects on the job’s board, marked with the employee’s name.
How do we know if referrals work better than other sources?
Open the sourcing report. It lists each source with applicants, hires, conversion rate, average score and time to hire. Download it as a CSV or open it in Google Sheets.

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