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"How to Deal with Reference Checks"

Posted by Penelope Trunk: "Reference checks used to matter a lot. Fifty years ago. When people only changed jobs twice in their life, and they didn't know anyone outside of their company, it made sense that the second company called the first company.

Then, when it became clear that the first company could say one, tiny bad thing and then make this person unemployable (because they had only worked for one person their whole life), giving bad references basically became illegal.

So that pretty much put the kibosh on the usefulness of corporate references. Yet people still ask for them today. So here are some ways to get a good reference.

Get a ringer lined up ahead of time...

Give a company you hate as a reference, if you have to...

Don't work for a person who relies on reference checks. They're lame...

Replace reference checks with networking...

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Source: Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist, 28 April 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).