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31. Reference Check Best Practices
Conducting structured reference checks with targeted questions that validate key risk areas.
Recruiting Fundamentals: Sourcing, Screening, Structured Interviews, and Scorecards
Reference Check Best Practices
A structured reference check is a focused conversation with past contacts that validates specific risk areas and job-critical behaviors.
"I need to know if they really delivered on the things they claimed in the interview — not just hear praise."
Structured reference checks use a short, standardized set of targeted questions tied to key risks and scorecard criteria to get reliable, comparable evidence about a candidate's past performance.
"I need to know if they really delivered on the things they claimed in the interview — not just hear praise."
Structured reference checks use a short, standardized set of targeted questions tied to key risks and scorecard criteria to get reliable, comparable evidence about a candidate's past performance.