Asklemmy

43945 readers

638 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Have any of you ever called your previous job/landlord to see what kind of reference they would give you? (leminal.space)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

You'd probably need someone else to call on your behalf. If you have, how did it turn out?

Edit: There seems to be some confusion about what I'm asking. I'm not talking about fake references. I'm talking about calling your reference on the sly to see if they're actually going to give you a positive review.

For example things don't go well with your landlord and you suspect they're going to depict you as bad tenant when you put them down as a reference while looking for a new place.

The same thing could be said for bosses and jobs.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I've had previous co-workers and managers contacted as part of a background check. I imagine the companies I worked for were contacted as well, though I don't know that for sure. As for actual job references, it's been less about the company itself and more about the people I worked with.

For example, I worked at one company for a number of years. Eventually, I left that company and worked at a different, unrelated, place for several years. Then, when I was again looking to change jobs, one of my previous co-workers at the first company passed my resume to his boss, who had also worked with me at the first company. They were looking to hire someone to be a contractor for a third organization, and the person responsible for managing people at that third organization was also someone I had worked with at the first company. They all remembered me and had liked my work. Basically, my resume bounced from desk to desk with everyone saying, "yup hire this guy."

You never know when the people you have worked with before will be the people who get to decide on hiring you later. Always try to leave on good terms, it may come back to you later.