If you have a job you may have the ability to make a job referral. Recommending a job candidate to your employer could earn you a cash bonus if the person is hired.
Did you know that about two-thirds of the employers offer incentives to employees for referring a new hire- and the fees can top as much as $10,000 for management level?
Here is a template referral letter in case you need one:
Remember just because you referred someone to your company and they happen to mess up after they got hired and later get fired, it is not a reflection on you. It is whoever a reflection on the person themselves. Once they get hired their behavior is on them, not you!
Don’t get caught up in office gossip about referring someone!
Writing a job referral letter is letting management know that someone is looking for a job and you happen to know them. I have written 5 letters where people have gotten hired. I don’t care what anyone says to me, I quickly tell them that I have no knowledge and take no responsibility for their behavior in any way. I stand firm on, ‘that’s what the interview process is for’.
