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Recruiter and former CTO here. References are a box-ticking exercise that you pay someone like Experian to do, so that you can say it was done as part of a secu
by psergeant 8y ago
Recruiter and former CTO here. References are a box-ticking exercise that you pay someone like Experian to do, so that you can say it was done as part of a security review.
- wool_gather 8y agoThat sounds like "employment verification": did $CANDIDATE actually work at $YOUR_COMPANY, with $JOB_TITLE, between $START_DATE and $END_DATE? I think the "references" under discussion here are actually phoning up former colleagues/managers for more detailed questions.
- psergeant 8y agoThey are the same references. Most companies with a decent HR department will only give the employee verification answers anyway.