Roikoi: How RoiKoi Wants To Change Employee Referrals, With Andy Wolfe

If you're a big employer, recruiting the right, new employees is usually a big problem--unless you are lucky enough to get some great referrals from your existing employees. Is there a way to make that easier for your employees, and smooth out potential hires for your recruiters and hiring managers? Austin-based Roikoi (www.roikoi.com) is looking to solve that problem, with a new service which helps employers collect names and information about the people their employees think ought to work for the company--even before there is an open position for that person. The company has the backing of such local angel investors as Brett Hurt, Andrew Busey, along with Capital Factory. We spoke with Andy Wolfe, the company's founder, about the company. What's the idea behind Roikoi? Andy Wolfe: We help companies collect about 30 great names from each of their employees, of people they might hire someday, regardless of job, to make it easy for corporate recruiters.... (more)