Start a reference check

Six references, €79. Each referee answers a set of questions chosen for the candidate’s occupation and for what that referee is positioned to have observed. You choose the role; the candidate chooses the people.

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Occupation

First name

Middle name

Last name

Candidate email

Your email

What you are buying

Six references€79

Who answers

The candidate names two people from each of three kinds of working relationship: two managers, two colleagues and two clients, say. They choose the people; the shape is fixed.

Why in pairs

One manager is one person’s opinion. Two who saw the same work from the same place can be reported as a side of the story — and where two sides disagree, the report can tell you it was the vantage point that differed rather than the temperament.

If they don’t all answer

The check closes 14 days after the referees are named and settles at the sides that actually completed. A side short is a third refunded, automatically. Below three references there is no score at all and you pay nothing.

You pay first, then the candidate is asked to agree. If they do, they nominate the six referees themselves. Nobody is contacted about them until both of those have happened.