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 ...

Employment references are one of the oldest tools in the book. Companies rely on them to vet candidates and assess the stability, competence, and reliability of possible employees. At Argentus, we ...

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 ...

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 ...

Providing references for former employees can put your human resources department on the spot. No laws list the information that HR must give when someone calls for a referral; however, giving out ...

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.

Ask hiring managers if they enjoy conducting candidate reference checks and you are likely to see a lot of eye rolling. But, in a time when candidates cannot be accepted at face-value alone, the need ...

Federal agencies should standardize the process for checking the references of potential hires and should train managers how to conduct effective checks, the Merit Systems Protection Board recommended ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...