Employee referrals

Let everyone in the company refer people, follow each referral to hire, and track bonuses.

The referral program turns your team into a sourcing channel. Employees share open roles or refer someone by name, get an update at every step, and — if you set one — earn a bonus when the person is hired.

Open Hiring → Referrals. If you do not see it, ask your InsightHire contact to enable referrals for your organization.

Refer someone

1. Choose Refer someone.
2. Enter their name and email, pick a role (or leave it open), and add a note on why they are a fit.
3. Choose Refer & send invite. They receive an email with a personal apply link and your note.

When they apply through that link, the application is credited to you. If they had already applied, the existing application is credited immediately. You cannot refer yourself, and a person can only be referred once per role.

Share a link

Every employee has share links: one for all open roles and one per job. Choose Get link, then Copy link or share straight to LinkedIn, X, WhatsApp or email. Anyone who applies after opening your link is credited to you. Clicks and applications are counted per link.

Follow your referrals

Your referrals shows every person you referred with a progress tracker — Submitted → Invited → Applied → Interviewing → Offer → Hired — and their bonus status. You are emailed when a referral applies, reaches interviews, gets an offer, is hired, or is not selected.

Refer without a dashboard seat

Anyone in the company can take part. An admin invites them from Referrals → Program → Participants (one email per line). Each invitee gets a personal portal link where they can share roles, refer people and follow their referrals. No login is needed. Copy a participant's portal link from the same list if they lose the email.

Employees who do have a dashboard seat use the Referrals page directly; they are enrolled automatically.

Run the program (admins)

Referrals → Program holds the settings:

• Default bonus and currency, with per-role overrides if you want to pay more for hard roles.
• Paid after (days) — the tenure the new hire must reach before the bonus is due. Default 90.
• Hiring team can't earn a bonus on their own job — on by default. Self-referrals are never eligible.
• Open-roles email — weekly or monthly digest to every participant with their personal share links, or Send now.
• Policy text — shown to employees on the Referrals page, the portal and in emails.

When a referral is hired, the bonus is scheduled. On the tenure date it becomes Due and an org admin gets a task to pay it. Mark it Paid in the Payouts table. Export all referrals downloads a CSV for finance.

In Reports, the Referrals entity and the templates Referrals by status, Referral leaderboard and Referral bonuses due or pending let you build widgets and scheduled reports on the program. The Leaderboard ranks referrers by hires, then applications. Referral hires also appear as a source in Analytics → Sources, and a referred candidate's profile shows Employee referral: [name].