When you interview an employee you may be very impressed by his resume, by the way he behaves and his past employment history. Before you jump and hire a new employee, it is vital to check his ...

To whom do you want to make the calls? The answer to this question depends on how important employers think reference checking is in the first place. If you believe reference checking is nothing more ...

(MoneyWatch) When called for a reference, your former employer can only verify dates of employment and job title, right? Wrong. Employers can say anything they want to about a former (or current) ...

Due to the popularity of the "name, rank and employee number" approach to reference requests, it is often challenging to uncover useful, in-depth information about a job applicant during telephone ...

Who wouldn’t want a heads-up on how a job candidate might perform before hiring them? That’s what the entire interview process is for, right? Well, yes, but there’s a final step that many employers ...

When US CEO and tech founder Mariah Hay took to LinkedIn to call out the use of “backchannels” to get the lowdown on job candidates, she kicked off an intense debate about how information is gathered ...

Hiring the right employee is a critical step in building a successful business, and reference checks can offer valuable insights into a candidate’s past performance, reliability, and interpersonal ...