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How often do you refer people to roles at your organization and does it impact you a lot? I have a friend who referred someone off a message board who was overemployed and got fired. He’s now worried about potential problems to come his way such as a reduced bonus or getting passed over because of referring him. Any insights are greatly appreciated.

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All the time and zero

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Cool! Thanks for the insight

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One off is a non issue. If it was a recurring pattern or if they went out of their way to misrepresent their friend explicitly in the process then yeah there could be issues.

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Makes sense, thanks

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Asking for a friend? lol. Like they had another job? Few factors at play when it comes to referrals:
1- Don’t refer people you don’t know/haven’t vetted personally - you are risking your brand and reputation. Full stop.
2- The interviewing/background process should be extended enough to weed out bad applicants (for instance at my firm if you refer someone, you are not part of the interviewer list) so even if you did think they were solid, others can interject and block. Which is healthy and happens often. A standard background check will catch “over-employment” - so that doesn’t check out.
Something tells me they didn’t take #1 seriously even though #2 is an expected backstop. And the fact that it got to that point tells me there are missing data points to the situation. Personally if I found out someone on my team blindly referred a candidate and convinced our team to hire them and pay them the referral bonus, I’d be pissed.
I give my team the benefit of the doubt often and want to empower good, organic referral culture. So if they did this with a selfish intent to just grab a few k bonus and 2 didn’t save the day, I’d still blame your friend for risking the firm’s reputation - and they’d be pretty dead to me. However your friend should sleep happy knowing the firm ultimately dropped the ball letting someone slip through the cracks even if they take the stick.
Drowning on their level, that’s a miss in the firm growing column that is actually valid.

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Will share this with my “friend” too :)

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