Employee Referral Form
Let the team put forward people they have actually worked with, and capture enough context that recruiting can move on it the same day.
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- Fields
- 10 questions
- Layout
- Classic, every question on one page
- Theme
- Ocean, switchable in the preview
- Updated
- 11 August 2026
Categories
- HR form templates
- HR Forms
- Recruiting Forms
- Internal Forms
Ideal for
- Recruiters
- HR teams
- Hiring managers
- Startups
Best used in
- Referral programmes
- Hard to fill roles
- Rapid hiring
About this template
Referrals are the highest converting source in most hiring funnels and the worst captured. They arrive as a name dropped in a corridor, with no email, no role, and no reason attached. This form takes thirty seconds to fill in and gives recruiting everything it needs to make contact the same day.
How you know them is the field that separates a real referral from a forwarded profile. Somebody who managed the candidate can tell you things no interview will surface, and the answer tells recruiting how hard to lean on the recommendation when they read it.
Ask whether the candidate knows, because a cold approach that opens with a colleague's name lands badly when the colleague never mentioned it. Add a bonus eligibility field if you pay for referrals, and route these straight into your hiring channel so they do not sit in an inbox.
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Fields in this template
- Your name*Short text
- Your work email*Email
- Their name*Short text
- Their email*Email
- Their LinkedIn or portfolioWebsite
- Which role are they right for?*Short text
- How do you know them?*Dropdown
- Why would they be good here?*Long text
- Do they know you are referring them?*Single choice
- Their CV, if you have itFile upload
Every field can be renamed, reordered, made optional, or removed once the template is open in the builder.
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Frequently asked questions
- What should an employee referral form ask?
- Who is referring, who they are referring and how to reach them, which role, and how they know each other. The working relationship is what makes a referral worth more than a CV.
- Does a referral bonus need to be on the form?
- State the terms where people will read them, which usually means here. Referrals go up when the conditions are visible at the moment someone is deciding whether to bother.
- Can recruiting act on it the same day?
- Yes, if it reaches them. Connect Slack and each referral posts to the recruiting channel as it arrives, which beats a shared inbox for anything time sensitive.
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