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The Referrals report helps you better understand the volume, percentage, and quality of candidates who were referred by members of your organization, as well as the volume and percentage of hires made through referrals. The period filter is based on the date on which candidates applied or were added.

With this report you can:

Review the volume and percentage of hires as well as applications made through referrals to better understand the effectiveness of your referral program
Assess the volume of referrals and their percentage out of the total number of applications in positions which offer referral reward in order to measure the affect of referral rewards on your hiring efforts
Analyze the ups and downs in the number of hires as well as applications through referrals over time and compare it to hires and applications acquired from other sources in order to identify periods of considerable trend changes and inquire what caused such shifts
Slice the number of hires and applications through referrals by various criteria in order to recognize and investigate the areas in which your referral program has been most as well as least successful
Explore the leaderboard table in order to single out and acknowledge employees that have been actively contributing and promoting the company’s brand

The report is divided into these sections:

KPIs - get a quick glance at key metrics relating to applications and hires derived from your company’s referral programs
Hires trend - identify trends for hires over time with an emphasis on hires made through referrals
Applications trend - identify trends for applications over time with an emphasis on candidates who were referred by members of your organization
Hires & applications - slice and analyze aggregated data relating to referrals by selected criteria
Leaderboard - slice and analyze aggregated data relating to applications and hires made through referrals with an emphasis on the employees who have been actively contributing to the company’s referral program
Referrals reward effectiveness - slice and analyze aggregated data of referrals made and percentage of referred applications out of all applications by position and referral reward
Applications - review a detailed list of all applications made through referrals with data points such as source type, application date, most advanced step, candidate current status, and many more

KPIs

The KPIs section of this report enables you to quickly evaluate your metrics, appearing similar to the following:

By default this section displays data taken from the current month, displaying:

Hires through referrals - the total number of hired candidates that reached the hiring process through a referral, and the percentage of referral hires from the total hires from all sources
Hires through referrals: compensated - the total number of hired candidates that reached the hiring process through a referral compensation program, and the percentage of compensated hires out of the total referral hires
Applications through referrals - the total number of applications that were generated through a referral, and the percentage of applications through referrals from the total applications from all sources
Applications through referrals: compensated - the total number of applications that were generated through a compensated referral, and the percentage of applications via compensated referrals from the total referred applications

Hires trend

The Hire trend chart enables you to identify and highlight trend patterns by various time intervals, featuring the following values:

Hires: all sources - hires that were sourced from any of the sources in your Comeet account
Hires: through referrals - hires that were sourced from referrals
Hires: through referrals: compensated - hires that were sourced from compensated referral programs
Hires: through referrals: uncompensated - hires that were sourced through referrals that were not compensated
Hires: other sources - hires that were sourced from non-referral sources

By noticing trend shifts in the number of hires from referral and non-referral sources you can investigate the causes for such shifts, learn from them, and improve your referral program accordingly.

The chart appears similar to the following:

Applications trend

The Applications trend chart enables you to identify and highlight trend patterns by various time intervals, featuring the following values:

Applications: all sources - applications that were sourced from any of the sources in your Comeet account
Applications through referrals - applications that were generated through referrals
Applications through referrals: compensated - applications that were generated though compensated referrals
Applications through referrals: uncompensated - applications that were generated through uncompensated referrals
Applications other sources - applications that were generated from non-referral sources

By noticing trend shifts in the number of applications from referral and non-referral sources you can investigate the causes for such shifts, learn from them, and improve your referral program accordingly.

The chart appears similar to the following:

Hires & applications summary

The Hires & applications summary table provides aggregated data of hired candidates by the following values:

Hires: All
Hires: Other sources
Hires through referrals
Hires through referrals: Compensated
Hires through referrals: Uncompensated
Applications: All
Applications: Other sources
Applications through referrals
Applications through referrals: Compensated
Applications through referrals: Uncompensated

You can slice the data by selected criteria, including the default and custom position fields.

The summary table appears similar to the following:

Leaderboard

The Leaderboard summary table provides aggregated data regarding employees who have been actively contributing to the hiring program, featuring the following values:

Applications - the total number of applications generated through referral by employee
Hires - the total number of hires through referral by employee

For alternative perspectives, you can change the primary column to source, rather than source type, and you can change the secondary column to source type, or to a specific referrer.

The data appears similar to the following:

Referral reward effectiveness

The Referral reward effectiveness summary table provides aggregated data regarding positions and their respective referral rewards, featuring the following values:

Referrals made - the total number of application made through referrals
% of all applications - the percentage of applications made through referrals out of the total number of applications

You can slice the data by position or referral reward. In this way you can assess the impact of your compensated and uncompensated referral programs based on the number of applications submitted by way of referral.

The table appears similar to the following:

Applications details

The Applications details table features all of the relevant data points per application, including the default and custom position fields along with additional relevant data points such as referral bonus, application date, current candidate status, most advanced step, and many more.