Reference checking is a personnel selection procedure that is widely used across the world. In reference checking, potential employers request information from informants who have previously worked ...

Reference checks and backgrounds checks are common screening tools used in the hiring process. Both methods are used to verify elements of a candidate's application, interview and work history.

Staffing, recruiting and hiring are key responsibilities of human resources. An important aspect of hiring is checking references to verify information in resumes and interviews. Checking references ...

When you think you’ve found the ideal candidate, it’s time to focus on reference and background checks. All too often reference checks are treated as an afterthought or a mere formality. The reality ...

Jeffrey S. Klein, left, and Nicholas J. Pappas, right, of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Over the past year and a half, spurred in part by the #MeToo movement, many employers have begun taking additional ...

There are reference checks and there are reference checks. The vast majority are worthless, but here are three resourceful, real-world methods - from my experience as an executive - that paid off ...

The University of Colorado Boulder will conduct additional reference checks on final candidates for tenured faculty appointments. The reference check program will enable CU Boulder to collect and ...

If you could either only interview your job candidates or only conduct reference checks, which would you choose? Serial Internet entrepreneur Kevin Ryan thinks the answer is simple. Reference checks.

HiPeople, an HR tech startup based in Berlin that wants to automate the reference checking process, has raised $3 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Mattias Ljungman’s Moonfire, with ...

Every part of the interview process can feel tenuous. For example: Here are a few thoughts I’ve had in the past, which I’m willing to bet have crossed your mind at some point, too. If I wear the wrong ...

Iowa City Community School District Superintendent Stephen Murley acknowledges that any school administrator is constantly concerned with inappropriate behavior between teachers and staff members and ...