When new-hire referrals are ignored, wait 3 months to request them. Yes, most are surprised that a simple 3-month delay has such a dramatic impact on your referral results.
Referrals are, of course, the undisputed best external source for high-performing hires. Yet in reality, few companies actually receive many successful referrals from their new hires.
First, because most companies don’t have a formal process for automatically requesting referrals from their new hires. But also because