What are employers asking your references?
| June 24, 2012 | Posted by admin under DECLARE - Network/Interview |
What are employers asking your references?
By Debra Auerbach, CareerBuilder Writer
References are often the last step in the screening process before an employer extends an offer. While every company has a different policy on references, most still ask for them. What a reference says, or doesn’t say, can sometimes make the difference between getting an offer or not.
Greg Szymanski, director of human resources at Geonerco Management in Seattle, says that when employers contact references, they’re looking to determine if the candidate is the person who presented himself in the interview. “Often what’s not said is more important than what is said. And hesitations and dancing in a reference’s answers are very telling.”
The questions employers are asking
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Personality and well-roundedness:
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