Posts tagged: references

Hiring Top Talent Requires a Process

We have discovered that in many companies the hiring process is random, unstructured, and often the people are not highly skilled at hiring. It is no wonder that for many companies hiring top talent is a challenge. Most companies typically have very sophisticated processes and procedures for just about every activity except hiring. This in [...]

Thursday November 3rd, 2011 in , , , , | No Comments »

Is Reference Checking Worthwhile?

Q. What do you recommend when it comes to checking references and is it even worth the effort? Reference checking when done correctly can be very powerful. I believe the problem isn’t with checking references, but rather how the reference check is performed. Most reference checking is more of a box checking exercise than what [...]

Thursday October 13th, 2011 in , , , , | No Comments »

Changing How You Check References

Q. Is checking a candidate’s references worth the effort since most companies won’t give references anyway? I conduct reference checks on every candidate I represent for one of our searches. I believe this is part of the due diligence process prior to hiring someone. Top talent have references and can always provide someone either currently [...]

Thursday July 21st, 2011 in , , | No Comments »

The Real Purpose for Checking References

In just about every in-house company workshop we conduct on hiring, ( See our University for workshops), sooner or later the topic of reference checking comes up. Usually someone will ask, “Isn’t reference checking a waste of time? After all, the person is only going to give you  someone that will say positive things.”  As [...]

Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 in , , | 8 Comments »

Shocked by your candidate’s on-line image?

When you’re presented with a resume, (regardless of whether it comes from an internal HR pro, a 3rd-party recruiter, a network contact, or off an advertisement), do you go on-line and check them out. What type of rants are your candidates posting on Myspace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter? What pictures are they posting on Flickr [...]

Thursday May 7th, 2009 in , , | No Comments »
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