Chapter 10
Requesting a reference
Most offers of employment will be subject to your prospective employer being able to obtain satisfactory references. Indeed, some employers will withhold making an offer of employment until they have checked references.
Of course, not all employers will bother with this formality. With people being increasingly worried about giving anyone a bad reference, the whole references game can often seem a fairly pointless exercise. And it has been known for an individual’s current employer to give them a glowing reference just because they are keen for them to leave!
Nevertheless, many employers will still pursue references. In certain lines of work they can take the issue of references very seriously indeed.
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