The five success factors behind Topicus achieving over 50% of hires through referrals

In recent years, attention for referral recruitment has increased enormously. Especially because of the great success many organisations achieve with it. Not only does word-of-mouth recruitment often prove to be a relatively inexpensive way of finding high-quality candidates, but the candidates recruited this way also tend to stay longer on average. Moreover, it also helps prevent turnover in another way: employees who refer candidates also stay longer on average, as Heleen Veldhuyzen van Zanten, referral recruiter at the Deventer-based IT company Topicus, has found.

On Tuesday 7 November, she will talk more about it during the second edition of the Referral Recruitment Event in Culemborg, where people such as Steven Ehrlich (Radancy), Jetske Bakker (Ordina), international recruitment specialist Andrew Steijaert, accountancy recruiters Anne-Britt Wiedemeijer and Heleen Admiraal, and recruitment adviser Renske Peeters will also take to the stage. What can we expect from her there? We have selected 5 success factors, based on a podcast Veldhuyzen van Zanten gave about it last year.