Interesting to know before beginning to study how to write a reference

24Aug07

Before the very beginning of trying to crack the “how to write a reference” thing, you may find those details interesting.

According to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management, more than eight of ten human resource professionals said that they regularly conduct reference checks for professional (89 percent), executive (85 percent), administrative (84 percent) and technical (81 percent) positions. However, for regular positions the reference checks were way less than 80 percent.

What does it tell you? People care.

What about lies? Well, 53 percent discovered of those people who have conducted research on references, at least once discovered falsified information. First, we do not know how often that is. If we know that, and we know what percent of people lied, we could come up with conclusions whether it is easy to get through with lying or not. In this case, it seems it is. But, don’t lie anyway.

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