FYI: If you know you can get a referral from someone for a company, WAIT to apply to the job until you know the details

I'm just throwing this out here because I messed this up once for myself and just today, an acquaintance did it when I offered to refer him to a job.

A lot of HR systems these days have very specific referral programs. It's not a matter of putting someone's name in the "Referred by" box - my company, for example, if I want to refer someone for a job I initiate it from my side and they are sent a specific link via email to apply to. It's a different application altogether. But I can't go back and add my name to an existing application, referrals have to be initiated internally.

Well back when I was job hunting a few years ago a friend offered to refer me, I talked to her after applying to a position and it was too late, her company had a similar system to my current. You can't undo it or go back in the system and add retroactively, so even though I put her name down it didn't make any difference, to that company I was not a referred candidate.

I offered to refer the son of a colleague to my company and told him specifically to let me know if he finds a job he's interested in and we can talk more, but I guess I wasn't explicit enough because he applied for a role first and then called me. Again, too late for me to do anything now so I can't "officially" refer him.

Anyway, just throwing this out there for people job hunting. If you can get a referral just hang off a bit on hitting submit, wait and see if it's a special process.

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