Telecom equipment maker Ericsson to continue incentives for its referral programme

NEW DELHI: Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson will continue to provide incentives to its staff for referring potential recruits, after this mechanism helped it hire 45% of the people added to its workforce in India in 2015.

“2016 too is looking promising for the programme,” Sameer Khanna, human resources head at Ericsson India told ET.

Since 2013, when the programme was launched, the number of employees hired through referrals has gone up 20%, he said.

“We want to leverage their (employees’) personal networks to bring in more suitable employees within the organisation.

Under this ‘Get Connected’ campaign, an incentive is given to employees for successful recruitments for select positions,” Khanna said.