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Forward-thinking companies are borrowing the playbook from their sales teams and applying it to talent acquisition. They're treating their referral networks like lead generation engines. They're proving that talent acquisition can be one of the most powerful revenue drivers in the organization.

You've probably noticed that some employees never refer anyone, while others seem to know everyone in the industry. In most office environments, work relationships stay professional and surface-level. People collaborate on projects but rarely stake their reputation on a colleague's abilities.

A technology company invested heavily in their employee referral program last year. They offered competitive bonuses, ran quarterly campaigns, and tracked every metric imaginable. Yet when leadership asked why their top engineers stopped participating after making one referral, nobody had an answer.

Most companies look within when they need high-quality referrals. But there's a pipeline they're missing out on that they might not have realized - customers, contractors, partners, vendors, and online communities.

This article explores how the lack of communication and visibility impacts your company and how Boon solves this problem.

From engineering to sales to customer success, great hires make everything run faster.

Job seekers expect a seamless experience when they visit a company’s career page. Still, they often encounter outdated job listings, lengthy application forms, and little to no communication after applying.

This article explains why this happens, how it impacts your hiring success and practical ways to fix it based on what we've learned while working with hundreds of companies.

Most organizations struggle to reach over 70% of passive candidates who aren't actively searching for jobs but represent some of the best talent available.

The best recruitment tools adapt to natural behaviors, not rigid processes. To design systems that people will genuinely use, we can look to an unlikely source for inspiration: urban planning. Specifically, the European park design principle shows us how to build solutions that develop based on real-world patterns, not assumptions.