{"id":110,"date":"2014-01-17T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionstreet.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2014-01-17T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T15:04:05","slug":"employee-referral-raffle-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solutionstreet.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/employee-referral-raffle-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Referral Program Raffle Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Employee Referral Programs are a great way to encourage employees to recommend people they think will make a significant impact to their organization. For the first time ever,<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\"><a title=\"Solution Street \" href=\"https:\/\/solutionstreet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Solution Street<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">conducted an Employee Referral Program Raffle Giveaway. The contest ran from November 15 until December 15, 2013. \u00a0 As a result, we received 78 potential job candidate submissions! Each employee, who gave a referral, recommended an individual he or she considered to be in the top 20% of software engineers. For each referral, the<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Solution Street\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionstreet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Solution Street<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">employee received one raffle ticket. \u00a0Some employees gave more than 10 referrals! \u00a0The 5 prizes included the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Spa Resort Getaway to<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Snowshoe Mountain \" href=\"http:\/\/www.snowshoemtn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">Snowshoe<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">in West Virginia\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gym Membership for 1 whole year\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tickets to<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Washington Redskins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redskins.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">Washington Redskins<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Washington Capitals \" href=\"http:\/\/capitals.nhl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">Washington Capitals<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Apple iPad Air\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad-air\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">Apple iPad Air<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Exotic Car Package \" href=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericandays.com\/experience\/driving\/exotic_cars\/exotic_car_drive_washington_dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">Exotic car package<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> that included a choice to drive a Lamborghini or Ferrari, hotel accommodations, \u00a0movie tickets and restaurant gift cards located in Washington, DC<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The winner was randomly drawn and Steve Hackley was our overall winner! \u00a0Way to go Steve!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Out of the 5 prizes, Steve chose the Apple iPad Air.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Solution Street \" href=\"https:\/\/solutionstreet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Solution Street<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">also offers a $3,000 bonus after 90 days if an employee&#8217;s referral is hired. \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a title=\"Solution Street \" href=\"https:\/\/solutionstreet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Solution Street<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span>is currently looking for software engineers who have working experience with one or more of the following skills:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ruby on Rails \/ Groovy on Grails<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Java \/ Spring<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Javascript Frameworks (e.g., AngularJS, Backbone)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">C#\/ASP\/.NET<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Python\/Django<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Salesforce Integration<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If interested and you want to be considered for a position with<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Solution Street \" href=\"https:\/\/solutionstreet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Solution Street<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">please submit your resume to the <strong>Technical Hiring Manager, Sarah Longwell, slongwell@solutionstreet.com<\/strong>.<\/span> \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Solution Street \" href=\"https:\/\/solutionstreet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Solution Street<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">offers a relaxed, flexible, working environment with competitive salary, bonus, 100% paid health and dental to employee and 401(k).<\/span> \u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Solution Street \" href=\"https:\/\/solutionstreet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Solution Street<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">also automatically contributes 3% to the employees&#8217; 401(k) plans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>We are currently looking for new ideas for the 2014 Employee Referral Program Raffle Giveaway. \u00a0What prizes do you think we should add to the list? 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