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By Lane V. Erickson<\/a>, Attorney<\/p>\n

According to a Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) survey more than eight out of ten human resource professionals reported that they regularly conduct reference checks for professional (89 percent), executive (85 percent), administrative (84 percent) and technical (81 percent) positions. Regular reference checks were less likely, but still happened, for skilled-labor, part-time, temporary and seasonal positions. Information routinely provided to reference checkers by surveyed employers included: (1) dates of employment for the job applicant; (2) eligibility for rehire; (3) salary history of the job applicant; and (4) employability of the job applicant.<\/p>\n

Even with this high number of reference checks occurring we all know that references for a job applicant should be viewed through a filter of reality. Usually a job applicant will choose only those persons who will provide glowing praise as a reference. However, even in these situations, a check of references by an employer can help to provide an objective view of the job applicant if the right approach is taken.<\/p>\n

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By Lane V. Erickson, Attorney According to a Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) survey more than eight out of ten human resource professionals reported that they regularly conduct reference checks for professional (89 percent), executive (85 percent), administrative (84 percent) and technical (81 percent) positions. Regular reference checks were less likely, but still happened, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nScreening References Through a Filter of Reality|Racine Olson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you have questions about the types of information that you can gather from a reference, we can help. 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