What are the advantages and disadvantages of using an employee referral campaign for recruiting purposes?

A key challenge to companies and organizations in today's hyper competitive market is to attract and hire the best available individuals with the appropriate skills and motivation to contribute to the success of achieving established goals. An important responsibility of the human resources department then becomes how to establish a pool of candidates to achieve this objective. . .

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