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Did Pat have any major accomplishments while working for you? Make sure you find out how closely and regularly Pat and the reference worked together. Find out when they worked together and for how long, and check on Pat’s title and responsibilities. To start things off, give Pat’s former manager a chance to get comfortable and to start verifying what Pat has already told you. Tell me about how you and Pat worked together Here are the questions you should consider asking: 1. None of your conversations will get back to the candidate (let’s call that person Pat). Once you have an ex-manager on the phone, make sure to tell them that all of their answers, no matter how glowing or how glaring, will be kept in absolute confidence. Once you have the right person on the phone, ask questions that will reveal truly useful information The candidate has well-established relationships with any references, who may be much more willing to chat if they believe they can help a former colleague by doing them a favor. In addition, your candidate may be the ideal person to set up your reference calls. This is a fair request, and the way your candidates respond - are they helpful or evasive? - may be a critical clue to what kind of employee they might be. If that’s the case, ask to talk to a manager from a previous role. Understandably, they may not want you talking to their current boss if their new job search is a secret. Instead of having candidates give you a list of their reference choices, ask them to include the names and phone numbers of their former managers on their application. Talk to the right people: Have your candidates help you reach out to their former managers So to help you get more out of this process, we’ve done our research and laid out who are the best references to talk to and the best questions to ask when checking references to get the information you need. But when reference checks are done right, they can be hugely helpful and be the difference between hiring the right or wrong person.