RL99: The Value of Warm Referrals for Jobs

It's CRITICALLY important to get a job or find a new employee

TheMilVet has been growing our team over the last few weeks.

We’ve made 2x full-time hires in the last month.

Today’s post is about getting a job and hiring.

How 70-85% of People Get a Job

In my first weeks at Wharton, career services shared a surprising stat -

70-85% of jobs are filled by a referral from the hiring manager/team’s network.

This number certainly made sense before the internet. Job postings in newspapers helped spread the word, but with limited reach, it stood to reason that most jobs came through our network.

In the digital age, the warm referral is still king and queen.

The View from a Hiring Manager’s Position

For our recent Executive Assistant role, I posted about the job once on LinkedIn.

Here are the stats from our funnel:

• 9,591 impressions on LinkedIn (these are folks who saw the post)

• 38 applied for the role on our website

• 1 was r…