{"id":1513,"date":"2016-05-18T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T15:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanfordrose.com\/kempfgroup\/scott-samuels-ceo-of-horizon-hospitality-a-member-of-the-sanford-rose-associates-network-of-offices-featured-in-human-resource-executive-online\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T17:57:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T17:57:33","slug":"scott-samuels-ceo-of-horizon-hospitality-a-member-of-the-sanford-rose-associates-network-of-offices-featured-in-human-resource-executive-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanfordrose.com\/kempfgroup\/scott-samuels-ceo-of-horizon-hospitality-a-member-of-the-sanford-rose-associates-network-of-offices-featured-in-human-resource-executive-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Samuels, CEO of Horizon Hospitality &#8211; Featured in HR Exec Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott Samuels, CEO of Horizon Hospitality &#8211; A member of the Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae network of offices, Featured in Human Resource Executive Online, Rebuilding Referrals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dallas, TX 5\/18\/2016<\/p>\n<p>By Andrew R. McIlvaine<\/p>\n<p>As effective as the employee-referral process can be, some key improvements are still needed at many companies.<\/p>\n<p>Too often, experts say, employee-referral programs not only fail to meet HR&#8217;s expectations, but end up leaving a bad taste in the mouths of job candidates and the people who referred them. A lack of transparency, inadequate rewards and poor communication are often the culprits, they say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do a lot of speaking on HR and recruiting topics, and there&#8217;s always a lot of discussion on how to increase the number of employee referrals,&#8221; says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horizonhospitality.com\/about-us\/meet-our-team\/\">Scott Samuels<\/a>, president of Overland Park, Kan.-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horizonhospitality.com\/\">Horizon Hospitality<\/a>. &#8220;Everyone does something a little bit different and, 95 percent of the time, it&#8217;s wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hreonline.com\/HRE\/view\/story.jhtml?id=534360584&amp;ss=scott+samuels\">http:\/\/www.hreonline.com\/HRE\/view\/story.jhtml?id=534360584&amp;ss=scott+samuels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Scott Samuels, CEO of Horizon Hospitality &#8211; A member of the Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae network of offices, Featured in Human Resource Executive Online, Rebuilding Referrals Dallas, TX 5\/18\/2016 By Andrew R. McIlvaine As effective as the employee-referral process can be, some key improvements are still needed at many companies. Too often, experts say, employee-referral programs not only fail to meet HR&#8217;s expectations, but end up leaving a bad taste in the mouths of job candidates and the people who referred them. 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