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Providing promotional advertising alone doubled applicants per vacancy from 25 to 51 [7], but produced no measurable impact on firm hiring [8]. Candidate identity verification alone yielded zero statistically measurable increase in hiring relative to the comparison group [8].
Providing prescreening hiring services directly to firms reduced employer evaluation costs and accelerated vacancy fill rates across participating businesses.
The intervention increased permanent contract hires of registered jobseekers by 14% (+0.046 hires per firm, p < 0.05) and stable quality hires lasting at least 12 months by 14% (+0.046 hires, p < 0.01), while producing no significant hiring increase for non-registered jobseekers.
Under standard unincentivized conditions, male recommenders do not systematically refer the highest-quality candidates from their social networks; offering explicit financial performance incentives significantly increases the ability and test scores of referred job seekers.