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Eqo – Employee Referral Solution for the Frontline

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2 Reviews and Ratings

What is Eqo – Employee Referral Solution for the Frontline?

Eqo is an employee referral solution for the frontline workforce. The platform helps users to increase employee referrals to attract frontline talent and reduce turnover, while eliminating any manual tracking from an admin side.

Three main components:
  1. Tracking Automation – to eliminate manual referral tracking
  2. Text-based Employee Experience (No app downloads required) – to increase frontline employee engagement
  3. Team-specific SMS Campaigns – to target hard-to-fill areas
  4. Eve – your AI-powered employee referral assistant

Integrates will all major ATS and HRIS platforms.

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Screenshot of Employee referral software: Text-based. No app downloads required.
Screenshot of Employee referral software: Admin tracking experience, with automated employment checks.
Screenshot of Employee referral software: A text campaign, used to increase employee engagement.
Screenshot of Employee referral software: A text that keeps employees in-the-loop, to save time spent on answering questions.
Screenshot of Employee referral software: Leaderboards and Gamification feature, to encourage a healthy referring behavior.
Screenshot of Employee referral software: Employee referral program’s analytics.
Screenshot of Employee referral software: Eqo's connections with major applicant tracking and human resource systems.
Screenshot of Employee referral software: Eve, the AI-Employee referral Assistant

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Screenshot of Employee referral software: Text-based. No app downloads required.

When seeking the top-tier employee referral solution, Eqo – Employee Referral Solution for the Frontline clearly stands out.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Employee referral programs are recognized as prime talent acquisition methods and effective tools for reducing turnover. However, programs often face issues with manual tracking or limited engagement from the frontline workforce. Eqo – Employee Referral Solution for the Frontline simplifies employee referral tracking, eradicating manual burdens for administrators. Simultaneously, its text-based referral process heightens participation among frontline teams, addressing engagement gaps prevalent in conventional programs. Such a platform becomes pivotal in an organization’s recruitment strategy, offering a seamless and effective solution to attract talent and mitigate turnover.

Pros

  • Eqo – Employee Referral Solution for the Frontline effortlessly tracks and oversees referrals, eradicating reliance on spreadsheets.
  • Frontline employees enjoy a straightforward referral experience, effortlessly referring others via text.
  • Organizations gain the capability to dispatch tailored text campaigns, maintaining employee engagement with the referral program.
  • Eqo – Employee Referral Solution for the Frontline's team offers strategic and creative support to their customers, complementing their solution.

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • 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

Alternatives Considered

ERIN Pro

Other Software Used

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, iCIMS Talent Cloud, Workday Human Capital Management

Text-based employee referral tracking for high adoption and automated tracking

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

When we analyze our customers' source effectiveness, employee referrals always stand out as one of the top three talent attraction methods. However, these programs often suffer from manual tracking challenges and a lack of engagement from frontline workers. Eqo has a streamlined interface that is very easy for employees to use, and it's all done via text, which increases referral participation among frontline teams. This bridges the engagement gap commonly found in traditional programs. There is massive potential with using a text-based employee referral strategy and I have recommended Eqo to all of our customers.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • One thing I mentioned to the team was the ability for Eqo to work as a standalone for easier roll outs. They mentioned this is already a feature, looking forward to learning more about that.

Return on Investment

  • Reduces recruitment costs by replacing a certain percentage of sponsored post spend with something that results in a much better-targeted reach.
  • Reduced employee turnover means lower backfill and training costs.

Alternatives Considered

ERIN Pro, EmployeeReferrals.com and Boon

Other Software Used

iCIMS Talent Cloud, Pipedrive, ActiveCampaign