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Therefore, executive checklists and leadership reference guides are in order. These to-do checklists and reference guides provide a framework to be used to institute overarching, enterprise-wide transformation. Today''s business world is extremely complex and challenging. It''s easy for even the most seasoned executive to make a mistake or overlook a detail that can lead to utter failure for his or her business. We have entered a new commercial age. MORE
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4 Ways to Improve Your References. People often list references as quickly and thoughtlessly as if they’re filling in their birth date or contact numbers. They don’t, however, bother to find out what their references will say about them. You might be surprised what some references say about their former coworkers or students. Ask your references what they might say about you. You may find that one can’t really serve as a strong reference.
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One of the most common ways to reference check a job candidate is to talk with their former managers over the phone. The same can’t be said for reference checking, and until now, there has been no systematic research on the differences between feedback provided by managers vs. coworkers. We examined feedback from a total of 20,000 references, who provided both numeric and narrative data on one of 5,000 job candidates.
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Hiring firms can get “inside” information about a candidate from their referring employee, while the referral itself serves as a vouching mechanism that signals a candidate’s competency or trustworthiness. But firms that rely on current employees to refer new hires could end up with a less diverse workforce. In the lab study, just as in our field study, we found that women received no benefit from being referred.
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