This article explains how Refari chooses the Top Recruiter that appears in your Weekly Insights email, what activity counts towards it, and how the score is worked out when more than one person is in the running.
Where you will see the Top Recruiter
Each Insights email includes a Top Recruiter section that spotlights the standout performer on your team for the period. The card shows their photo, their name, a congratulations message, and three headline figures:
- Traffic Driven to Website
- 5 Star Ratings Achieved
- Candidate Progressions
What counts towards it
Three different activities feed the Top Recruiter ranking. Each one is measured over the same period as the email it appears in.
| Activity | What it measures |
|---|---|
| Traffic Driven to Website | The unique clicks the team member drove back to your website, through their socialisations and the Job Alerts their sharing generated. |
| 5 Star Ratings Achieved | The verified TopRec ratings the team member received during the period. |
| Candidate Progressions | The number of times the team member moved a candidate forward to a new stage in your hiring process. |
How the winner is worked out
Refari does not simply crown whoever got the most clicks. Each of the three activities above is converted into points using the same points system that powers your achievement badges, and those points are added together. The team member with the highest combined points total for the period is named the Top Recruiter.
Converting each activity into points puts them on a level footing. A single candidate progression takes more effort than a single click, so it is worth more points. This stops a large number of low-effort actions outweighing a smaller number of high-value ones, and it keeps the ranking aligned with the same milestones your badges reward.
Note: The three figures shown on the Top Recruiter card (Traffic Driven to Website, 5 Star Ratings Achieved and Candidate Progressions) are the raw counts for the period. The ranking that decides who is named Top Recruiter uses the points-weighted total of those three together, not the raw counts on their own.
What happens with a tie
If two or more team members finish the period on the same points total, they are all recognised as Top Recruiters and each gets their own card in the email. That is why the heading sometimes reads Top Recruiters rather than Top Recruiter.
The period it covers
The Top Recruiter is always measured over the same window as the email it appears in:
- Weekly Insights email: the previous 7 days.
- Monthly Insights email: the previous calendar month.
- Quarterly Insights email: the previous quarter.
Only activity inside that window counts. Anyone with no qualifying activity for the period (a points total of zero) is not ranked, so a quiet week simply means fewer people are in the running.
Idea: The Top Recruiter spot rewards a mix of activity, not just one thing. The surest way onto the card is to do all three: keep sharing jobs and candidate adverts to drive traffic, ask for a TopRec rating after a great experience, and keep candidates moving through your pipeline.
Other articles you might be interested in: Refari Weekly Insights Email Explainer | Achievement Badges: What are they for? How do they help? | How to opt users out of Gamification
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