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Employment Reference Checks

Net Reference™ Reference Checks

We know you've experienced the frustration of playing phone tag with an applicant's references, only to finally connect with them and be told, "I'm sorry, but company policy prohibits us from providing more than a verification of employment." Net Reference allows you to receive more from your employment reference checks, namely, relevant, timely information from the best judges of your applicant's abilities: the candidate's former managers, colleagues and clients.

Net Reference is a online reference check tool that improves the quality of information you receive by providing accurate, objective and relevant information about job candidates. The simple, web-based process makes it easy for an applicant’s former managers, colleagues and clients to respond quickly and candidly to specific, skills-based questions about an applicant’s performance and behaviors.

This breakthrough approach to employment reference checks is based on more than 25 years of intensive research in job competency modeling. Net Reference delivers information about factors that are critical to job success but often difficult to measure through current employment reference check tools — skills and qualities such as honesty, integrity, ethics, and emotional intelligence, which are among the most common reasons for hiring failures. Now Net Reference actually measures these and other critical competencies and provides quantitative and qualitative data in comprehensive reports that complete the profile of job candidates, resulting in complete employment reference checks and fully informed hiring decisions.

 

 

 With Net Reference

Via Phone

Consistent Process

Yes

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Fully Documented Process

Yes

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Targeted Skills-based Questions

Yes

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Candid, Confidential Process

Yes

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Average Turnaround

1 to 2 days

3 to 7 days

Total Recruiter Time per Candidate

5 minutes

30 – 60 minutes

References Contacted

4 to 7

2 or 3

References Responding

75%

30% to 50%

Skills Evaluated

12 to 25

8 to 10

Information Value to Hiring Decisions

High

Low

24/7 Availability

Yes

No

Opportunity for Reference Fraud

Low

High

 

Telephone Reference Checks

Even without Net Reference we can simplify your employment reference check process by performing telephone reference interviews. Many employers fail to adequately interview an applicant’s references. Our script of standard questions provides relevant information about a candidate's job performance and areas for improvement. We adhere to strict callback guidelines so references are never called once and forgotten. Custom questions can be developed to meet your specific employment reference check needs.

Once the phone calls have been completed, detailed reference responses are available to you in an easy-to-read report which you can retrieve online anytime.

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