We created Socialhire because we wanted a better way to find great people. Great people make great organizations and referrals often are the best way to find great people. Socialhire creates a new tool for hiring managers, entrepreneurs and HR professionals to add to their recruiting toolkit. We think of it as a supercharged referral network. All sorts of companies have used a similar tool for a long time, the employee referral bonus. Pretty simple, employees are given a cash incentive (typically from $500 to $5000 depending on the need and the market) if they help their company find a future hire. Socialhire updates the employee referral bonus for the connected world. Today, most of us have extensive networks who know us, our companies and the kinds of people we want to hire. We also have much easier to access connections to those networks through LinkedIn™, Facebook, Twitter and other tools. Socialhire makes it simple to create a referral bonus program for your entire professional network – and then makes it easy to communicate the job opportunities and the incentive instantly. Socialhire provides a more proactive approach to finding the right person than simply job postings and other baseline methods – but without moving all the way to the large costs of contingency and retained search firms. The most important elements are that Socialhire administers the program, you can choose how much you are willing to pay and you only pay if you hire a referral – so give it a try today.