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Career Guides Career Corporate Human Resources Training & Development Knowledge Managment Time Management Stress Management Sponsors Ezboard IS Community-Supported Communities. Support us and your communities. In order for communities to thrive and grow, they need the support of their members. and we rely on both the support of our users and the support of advertisers to provide these invaluable services to you. Please help keep this site banner free by clicking here. Affiliates A Premier Provider of Management Consultant & Training Solutions. A Pocket PC Unified Body of Individuals in Singapore.		Selecting Candidate's Reference One of the most important steps in a well-structured job search is the selection of appropriate references. Since more and more employers are actually contacting references, giving careful thought to the selection of your references should never be underestimated. During the 10 years I've been in the reference-checking business, I've developed a few guidelines that will help you build a solid list of appropriate references. ·Identify at least four people with whom you've actually worked on a day-to-day basis within the last five to seven years, and who are familiar with your responsibilities and your job performance. ·Ask them personally if they would be willing to be a reference for you. ·Make sure they will also talk to prospective employers who probably will be calling. There's no point in supplying a prospective employer with references who refuse to comment about your performance or hide behind some company policy or refer all reference calls to the HR department. If necessary, ask them specifically to accept reference calls about you. ·Try to get a variety of people to serve as references for you. Many job seekers assume that their references all have to be former bosses. The best set of references -- in my view -- would be a former boss, a peer and someone who worked for you. It's not always possible to always get that mix of people, but coworkers or subordinates are just as valuable as former bosses. ·Keep in mind that all you really want your references to do is give honest responses to questions that are asked by prospective employers. Many job seekers mistakenly assume that the goal is to list references that will only say good things about them. They really want references that will say honest things about them. You really don't want references telling a prospective employer that you're good at things about which you know nothing, or have had no experience doing. That will not help you in the long run, especially if you are hired to do a job for which you are not qualified. Just ask your references to respond honestly about your job performance, as risky as that might sound at first. After a moment's reflection, it should become clear that no one does everything perfectly. No one has learned all there is to know about every job. All of us can improve, learn, gain more experience and acquire more skills. For a reference to suggest otherwise is ordinarily a large red flag to employers. Some jobs will be perfect for you, others won't. Taking the wrong job and failing would be far more damaging to your career than never having it offered to you in the first place. That's why asking references just to be honest is so important. Make sure you provide prospective employers with complete and up-to-date information on your references. The object of the exercise is to make it as easy as possible for a prospective employer to reach your references. Make sure all telephone numbers are current. Provide a home number if your references would prefer to be called there. Carefully selecting your references is far more important than many job seekers realize. Following these simple guidelines will help insure that your job search produces the desired result - The Right Job for You. < Back >		Updates HR Professionals Guide Training & Development Guide Manager's Trouble Shooting Guide Series Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Selling Series HR Management Practises Series Featured Communities BIK & Associated A Premier Training & Management Provider in Training & Development Workshops. PPCSG.Org A Web Forum for the Techno Gadgets Trend Followers. Lots of Informative and Guides for your Pocket PC.
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