Reference checks should be initiated for all final candidates prior to recommending a candidate for the position. Obtain several professional references for each candidate under serious consideration.

In my course at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, students frequently ask case guests: What is the most important thing you do as a leader? The response is always the same: hiring and ...

Reference checking is a personnel selection procedure that is widely used across the world. In reference checking, potential employers request information from informants who have previously worked ...

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HiPeople, an HR tech startup based in Berlin that wants to automate the reference checking process, has raised $3 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Mattias Ljungman’s Moonfire, with ...

Your interviews have gone well, and the prospective employer is impressed by you and your qualifications. But before they send out an offer letter, they will need to do one last thing: a reference ...

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Let’s face it: Hiring people is a chore. Sifting through résumés, conducting interviews, trying to make a decision on who is the best candidate. It’s a major time drain for all parties involved. But ...