Conducting Reference Check Before Appointing Employees

• It is advisable to conduct a reference check on the candidates, before giving them a job offer.
• Reference check helps in avoiding hiring mistakes which are difficult and time consuming to recover from.
• Generally, work related true feedback may come from the people with whom the candidate has worked earlier. Hence it is an HR practice to seek reference from the previous employers.
• But, while doing so, remember that we should never contact their current employer for a reference check, unless the candidate has already resigned from that company or he has been asked to leave.
• We can contact some or all of the previous employers (prior to the current one) for checking the reference.
• If possible, get the information from the candidates about the persons whom we can contact for reference checks.
• If we wish to conduct an anonymous reference check on our own, we should inform the candidate about the same in advance.
• For their work related feedback, some past employer, manager or supervisor has to be contacted. Remember, genuine work performance related reference can only come from persons with whom the candidate has worked.
• The relatives, acquaintances etc. provided as references by the candidate may help us establish an idea about their general and social conduct.
• The reference checking must be done gracefully and in the positive spirit.
• It must be done keeping in mind the interest of the candidate also. Our actions should not create any difficulty to the candidate, regardless of whether he joins us or not.

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