Real Links

The holiday season is all about coming together—whether with family, friends, or people we cherish—and sharing moments that make us feel grounded, supported, and valued. What truly matters are the connections we make. ✨ At Real Links, we’ve seen how powerful those connections can be throughout the year—how a simple a referral can spark a new opportunity, or how an engaged team can drive incredible results. This time of year highlights just how important it is to build real, meaningful relationships, and we’re so grateful to have helped our customers do just that. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of our journey in 2024. As we head into 2025, we’re excited to continue fostering these connections and creating new opportunities together. 🤝 Wishing you a joyful holiday season filled with connection, warmth, and success. #RealLinks #BuildingConnections #MerryChristmas #HappyHolidays

We’re thrilled to now partner with Stowe Family Law LLP! ⚖️ As the UK’s largest specialist family law firm, Stowe Family Law is known for its compassionate approach and dedication to supporting families through life’s most challenging moments. With Real Links, they’ll unlock the power of employee referrals and advocacy to attract talented professionals and share their mission with wider networks. Together, we’re creating opportunities for employees to connect great people with meaningful roles—building a team that embodies Stowe’s values of empathy, excellence, and client care. Here’s to driving success and making a lasting impact together! #EmployeeReferrals #EmployeeAdvocacy #TalentAcquisition #RealLinks #LegalIndustry

We’re excited to announce our new partnership with GROWMARK, Inc.! 🌾 Based in the heart of the U.S., GROWMARK is a leader in agricultural innovation, providing solutions that support farmers and rural communities across North America. By partnering with Real Links, GROWMARK is leveraging the power of employee referrals to attract top talent passionate about agriculture and sustainability. From agronomy and grain to energy and logistics, Real Links enables GROWMARK employees to refer talented professionals who align with their mission to feed and fuel the world. 🌱 🚜 We’re proud to support GROWMARK in growing their team and their impact! #Agriculture #Sustainability #EmployeeReferrals #TalentAcquisition #RealLinks

We’re thrilled to announce our new partnership with Ballast Nedam! 🏗 Known for their innovation and commitment to building a sustainable future, Ballast Nedam is now partnering with Real Links to transform their talent acquisition through the power of employee referrals and advocacy. With Real Links, Ballast Nedam can engage their employees to refer talented professionals and champion their vision of creating exceptional infrastructure and buildings. From project managers to skilled on-site teams, Real Links empowers employees to act as advocates, attracting top talent who share Ballast Nedam’s values of innovation, sustainability, and quality. 🌍 We are excited to support Ballast Nedam in building a workforce dedicated to shaping tomorrow’s world! 🤝 #Construction #Sustainability #Recruitment #EmployeeReferrals #EmployeeAdvocacy #TalentAcquisition #RealLinks

We’re thrilled to announce our new partnership with Trinity Homecare! 🏥 Known for their commitment to exceptional home-based healthcare, Trinity Homecare is now partnering with Real Links to elevate their talent acquisition through the power of employee referrals and advocacy. With Real Links, Trinity Homecare can engage their employees to refer skilled professionals and share the organization’s mission within their networks. From frontline caregivers to essential support roles, Real Links empowers employees to act as advocates, attracting top talent who align with Trinity’s values and dedication to quality care. 🌟 We are excited to support Trinity Homecare in building a workforce dedicated to making a difference every day! #Healthcare #Recruitment #EmployeeReferrals #EmployeeAdvocacy #TalentAcquisition #RealLinks

Had an awesome time over in the Netherlands this week speaking at Michael Boud's inspiring Employee Referral Recruitment Event! It was an honour to be asked to present alongside inspiring industry leaders such as Bryan Peereboom, Sarah Meijer, Eric Houwen, Aron Cristea, Ilse Weijland, Yves Pilet, Noor Mohamed and Liesbeth Driest! My talk explored how you can build a referral strategy that supports ED&I and other sessions covered interesting areas such as strengthening your referral strategy with AI, getting the organisation to invest in referrals & ensuring you guarantee quality! It was a great line-up & a really fun day that convinced me Real Links should be taking this show on the road with Michael, next stop London! It was also great to meet Marielle Boer-de Schaaf (in the picture) in person, Marielle recently signed up to use Real Links and we're really excited to be working with you! #employeereferrals #advocacy

Really excited to be joining Chris Hoyt on the CareerXroads podcast where we'll be talking about the Convergence of Employee Referrals and Advocacy Programs! Join us at 5pm BST today!

Diversifying Your Talent Pipeline...with Employee Referrals! Employee Referrals are often thought of as 'anti-diversity'. However, we're seeing companies run referral programmes that are having the opposite effect and supporting ED&I, particularly by running campaigns with diversity groups / ERGs. Sign up below to join me, Hung Lee, Akbar Karenga and friends on Brainfood Live this Friday 25th Oct at 2pm GMT where we will look at... - State of Employee Referrals - how many people get hired via this method? - How many companies have a formal ERP programme? - What are the hallmarks of the great ERP programme? - Can you use ERP to specifically help with workforce diversification? - What techniques can be used to do this, without being discriminatory? - Can you give examples where this has been a success? - What expected problems might we launch a programme like this? - How do we build upon the success of a successful ERP campaign? #referrals #diversity #advocacy Real Links, Anouk Fechner, Hedi Ouardani

Hedi Ouardani and I had an awesome day representing Real Links at the IHR - In-house Recruitment Leaders Conference in Manchester on Thursday! Great to share our insights on referrals & advocacy and to hear so many TA Leaders tell us after that they're both a growing priority for 2025! Why wouldn't they be when you look at the stats we spoke about.... 1️⃣ Referrals are failing, rates below <10% but 30%+ is where you should be! 2️⃣ 560% - larger employee network reach vs employers 3️⃣ 45% - employee recommendations more trusted vs co recommendations 4️⃣ 96% retention - we're seeing millions saved on improving retention alone! 5️⃣ 40% reduced time to hire - huge savings in lost revenue for unfilled roles! 6️⃣ 71% reduction in agency spend - again seeing millions saved! 7️⃣ Huge impact on ED&I & Early Careers by running campaigns with ERGs, interns, apprentices and grads! If you're not already thinking about referrals & advocacy for 2025, now is the time, the business case writes itself and we have a template if you want help! If you think you're doing well enough with referrals, remember 30% is where you could be... #employerbrand #advocacy #referrals Thanks to Mark Lennox, Besma Belfadil at the IHR Team!

Referrals and Employee Advocacy can play a vital role in attracting qualified and diverse talent into your organisations. If you’d like to learn how Real Links supports its customers to source quality candidate and build employe brand awareness, get in touch!