Boon vs. Eqo – Employee Referral Solution for the Frontline

We can recommend without hesitation, this software, as it certainly fulfills its purpose of providing us with talents and trained personnel for the jobs in our company, with an innovative system that works perfectly. It is ideal for all companies that want to hire trained personnel and save time in the process.

Orgs with over 1,000 employees and large frontline workforce such as healthcare, retail, and hospitality. Definitely for any company that is overwhelmed by managing employee referrals and payouts on spreadsheets. Under 1,000 employees, probably not necessary because the volume is manageable for them to handle internally.

• It has reward management, where we can through its tools, reward, and reward all the people who recommend us talents according to the characteristics we are looking for and that we achieve the hiring.
• We can track in real-time all the recommendations, as well as their progress, to know in detail, the candidates that are being selected and the people who will be given the incentives.
• It has integrations such as job adder, greenhouse, and Oracle service, among others, to make the entire recruitment process more efficient.

• Automatically tracks and manages referrals, eliminating the need for spreadsheets.
• Provides a simple referring experience for frontline workers because it's all done via text.
• Targeted text campaigns to keep employees engaged with the referral program.
• Very passionate leadership team that also provides strategy and creative support to their customers as part of the service.

• Some recommendations and references have been erroneously detected as fraud, discarding them from the system.
• Its interface can be very clean and navigable, but more knowledge is needed to understand all the functions that the program has.
• Their technical support is very friendly and guides very well, but for software like this, they need much more support material.

• One point I highlighted with their team was the importance of Eqo – Employee Referral Solution for the Frontline being able to function without ATS/HRIS integrations for smoother rollouts and pilot programs — and they've already successfully achieved this capability.

Eqo – Employee Referral Solution for the Frontline stands out in three key areas: ‍ 1. Employees easily refer someone via text – with no need to download any mobile apps. 2. Recruiting teams can send text campaigns to increase referral participation from understaffed regions. 3. Eqo – Employee Referral Solution for the Frontline’s team goes beyond just providing a solution. They work closely with their customers to ensure there are strategies and creatives put in place to maximize employee engagement and adoption throughout the year.

• Increased talent attraction via referrals, effectively cutting down recruitment expenses.
• Minimized employee turnover, thereby reducing expenses related to backfilling and training.
• Increased employee referral engagement from frontline teams
• Eliminated any manual administration of tracking employee referrals, reducing double payments and missed payments