Is It a Good Sign If a Recruiter Calls Your References? | JobSearchTV.com
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Not everyone is honest while you are job hunting!
I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. I’m a coach who helps people professionally in a host of different ways– job search, hiring more effectively, managing and leading workplace-related issues career development executive coaching and I’m here to answer a question from someone who wants to know is it a good sign if a recruiter is calling your references. It depends. Let me start off with the corporate recruiter.
Generally, a corporate recruiter does this at the end
of the process. They are there evaluating people and they’re just trying to make sure that someone isn’t shall we say, weird. They’re looking for verification that everyone’s take on this person is good and thus with a corporate recruiter it’s a good sign.
With an agency recruiter, that’s a different story. Again, it depends. Often, agency recruiters do the slippery thing. They call references. Why? In order to talk to your manager to see if they can find a job to work on, talking to a colleague in order to find out whether they can recruit them, too, and perhaps create competition for you in filling the job. They do this because they don’t work for you. They work for an employer trying to
fill jobs and the presentation of this as “checking a reference,” or “my client “asks me to check references prior to submission,” for most of you is a lie.
For most people who are experiencing this, you think they’re being forthcoming and forthright and they’re not. Now at the end of the process where you’ve had multiple interviews, sometimes a firm will say “We’d like to check references on this person before we make them an offer .” Then, it’s perfectly legitimate. But at the
beginning of the interview, not so clear.
I’m Jeff Altman. I hope you found this helpful. My website is TheBigGameHunter.us. Go there; go exploring. There’s a lot there to help you in the blog. Also, if you are interested in one-on-one coaching, at the website there’s a button that says
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