Fairview Amplified Referrals from 6% to 29% with Eqo: Sourcing 451 Nursing Hires and Achieving 93% Retention

The Problem

Only 6% of Fairview’s external hires came through employee referrals and the team was spending 40 hrs per week tracking referrals manually – driving up hiring costs and agency spend

Fairview was challenged with sourcing clinical talent, especially nurses. Their employee referral program was extremely manual and faced low engagement from their frontline workforce.

Only 6% of their annual hires were coming through referrals and their recruiting team was spending 40 hours per week manually managing it on spreadsheets.

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Solution with Eqo

Fairview launched Eqo to automate admin tracking, provide a simple text-based referring experience for their employees, and to maximize employee awareness with targeted SMS referral campaigns & complementary marketing assets from Eqo

We’ve worked with their team on overall strategy including placing physical banners, posters and awareness around their facilities.

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The Results

In just 10 months, Fairview boosted their employee referral rate to 29%, sourcing 1,152 referral hires with a 93% annual retention rate, and saved a total of 1,600 hrs

They also saw a 17 day faster time-to-fill for employee referrals. 

In 10 months, Fairview’s 1,152 referral hires through employee referrals included

• 254 Registered Nurses 
• 19 CRNAs
• 10 Nurse Practitioners
• 35 Physicians
• 83 Nursing Assistants 
• 85 Nursing Station Technicians 
• 24 Radiology and Imaging Technicians 
• 23 Respiratory Therapists 
• 76 Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians

They also achieved a 23.3% application-to-hire rate for employee referrals, compared to 5% application-to-hire industry average.

Employees were happy too. Their average employee rating of the new text-experience is 4.5/5 stars with the top highlighted employee being: “It’s very smooth and self explanatory!” and “Amazing process once I found the information to text Refer to 67000”

"Working with the Eqo team, Tawfiq and Tiffany have been absolutely fabulous. Their communication, their partnership, their willingness to change and try new things based on our needs has just been fantastic. They really are a true partner to our organization and not just another vendor"

Amy Behrends
Recruitment Sourcing Manager | Fairview