Attention: Human Resources

Referrals are the number one source for new employees.

Referrals from your existing employees are one of the best sources for candidates. Your current employees know your property and company. They will know which of their friends and acquaintances will be interested in your jobs.

Many of your employees are interested in advancing their careers with you. Do you know which jobs each of your employees are interested in? Why not ask them?

Your employees are typically at home when they talk to their friends. Many employees are self conscious about reading about jobs on the company bulletin board at work. They would prefer to read about your jobs in the comfort of their homes.

Here is a simple form you can print out and distribute to your employees. (Would you like us to send you an e-mail at home when we have job openings you would be interested in knowing about? That your friends might be interested in?) You can create a simple Excel page with columns for each Department. Then type in employees home email addresses for the Departments they have checked. Now you have one master email spread sheet. Need to advertise a job, simply copy the email addresses and paste them into the blind CC list of addressees on your email form.

What do you do if employees check off job categories you know they are not qualified for?
CONTACT THE EMPLOYEES TO GET THE STORY.

Recent Example:

At one hotel, the Housekeeping employees checked off all the management and all the hourly job categories. The Human Resources Director knew that many of the employees only spoke a few words of English. When asked, the Executive Housekeeper didn't have an answer. The HR Director then asked some of the Housekeeping employees. Almost all the hourly employees in Housekeeping belonged to the same three churches. Each Sunday the ministers would make public service announcements from the pulpit. Employees wanted to take the list of vacant jobs to their ministers.

Moral of the story?  Before she asked the employees, the HR Director was just going to eliminate all job categories except the ones the Human Resources Director thought employees were qualified for.

Results:

Human Resources Director told us she has hired 3 management employees that applied after the announcements were made in churches.