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Employee Referral Program: HR Processing Aid

This document highlight the employee referral program - HR processing job aid.

Steps

  1. View your requisition in Cornerstone.

    Screenshot showing referral process in Cornerstone

  2. Confirm the referral bonus amount of $600. This will auto-populate.

    Screenshot showing the form fields to confirm referral bonus in Cornerstone.

    If you would like to see an employee view of the referral process in Cornerstone, reference the Referring Employee Job Aid .

  3. When finalizing the search and preparing to hire the selected candidate, look to see if the candidate was referred.

    Screenshot showing candidates information and referral sources

    Screenshot showing a selected candidate information and referral sources

  4. If a candidate that was referred to the requisition is hired, then the Employee Referral Incentive Acceptance Form in Cornerstone will need to be initiated for the referring employee to answer “yes” or “no” to the Employee Acknowledgement. The form can be found by selecting additional resources, useful information.

    Screenshot showing an expanded additional resources dropdown the text; useful information of a user profile.

    Screenshot showing Employee Referral Incentive Acceptance Form hyperlink highlighted in red.

  5. For the Employee Referral Incentive Acceptance Form you will need to have information to complete the following fields: accessed via Current Employees button on jobs.illinois.edu. Screenshot showing Employee Referral Incentive Acceptance Form fields

Form Field Hints:

  • Employee Home Org Code will auto populate
  • CFOP to Charge Referral Bonus To: The unit CFOP you identify will be charged. Most funds are potentially eligible. Do not use sponsored research funds.

A completed form example is below:

Screenshot showing a completed Employee Referral Incentive Acceptance Form


Keywords:
Hiring, employees, hiring employees, employee referral program, employee referral, employee incentive 
Doc ID:
157629
Owned by:
Anisat A. in University of Illinois Human Resources
Created:
2025-12-22
Updated:
2026-01-30
Sites:
University of Illinois Human Resources