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Reference Checking
A perspective employer may ask your former employer(s) any of the following
questions. In order to do so, you may be asked to sign a waiver so that
your former employer(s) need not be concerned about liability.
The form below is actually a composite based on two different corporate
reference check forms.
Employed from: __________________ to _________________
Salary: $_______ ___hourly / ___per annum
Position held: _______________________________________
What was your relationship to the applicant?
Did you directly supervise the applicant?
What were the major requirements of the position?
What were the applicant's strengths?
What were the areas that the applicant needed to improve?
How well did the applicant relate to others on the job?
Reason individual left?
Is applicant eligible for rehire? (If not, please explain.)
Additional Comments?
Note: reference check may include further probing into specific job-related experinece and skills, knowledge and abilities, such as communication, supervision, finance, problem-solving, customer service, etc.
The above rating scale may appear to be harmless since negative values, such as "Poor" or "Bad", are excluded. But, for that very reason, it would be foolish to think that you couldn't get a bad rating. If you were to score "Excellent" in all of the above categories, then your rankings would obviously be highly positive. But, if you were to receive only "Fair" in any category that would be understood as a negative rating. In other words, to decode the rankings think of them as follows:
"Excellent" means above average or good.
"Good" means okay or average.
"Fair" is code language for poor.
