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Why should we hire your referral?

Context - Google asks it's employees this question when they refer a candidate for a role.

Now my question is, what is the expectation from a referral candidate in general for any company? What value is given by the HM for this question, what would they be looking for in an answer??

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GroovyBoba
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In the do you know the candidate question while giving people referrals. I just mentioned "rando dude reached out on LinkedIn"

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