lately..and these things come in streaks..we have had a “rash” of lessons as a result of references for our candidates that have caused problems or cost the candidate the job..
over the next few blogs, we are going to discuss them..
last week, one of our candidates gave a previous peer as a reference…when the hiring authority checked this reference, the reference giver said that he had not worked with the candidate in over a year…!!!
the candidate had told the hiring authority that he had left his last job last month…so the hiring authority jumped to the conclusion that the candidate was lying about when he left his last job…
we eventually cleared the misunderstanding up…it was true that the reference hadn’t worked with the candidate in more than a year…because the reference was moved to a different department of the company…the employer didn’t hear that, because the reference didn’t make it clear..
remember, hiring authorities are afraid of making a mistake…they will be fearful of the smallest issue or misunderstanding..
make sure your references are “reading from the same page”.,.it took a whole day of calls to other people that worked with our candidate to clear this up…
call your references before they are called by the hiring authority…share with them what the hiring authority is going to want to know…
