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Do employers check references? *part time jobs*

  • 23-03-2012 8:43pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭


    do they do you think? like i dont really have any specific numbers for anyone i worked for, i have people who i could get recommendations from but it just be names and the store they worked in and number of that store.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 786 ✭✭✭qrrgprgua


    Yes. They do. Just give them a Teacher or professors name.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭ironclaw


    Depends on the job. Generally they only do for skilled work or if there is an irregularity in what your saying. Doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    It's 50-50 really. Remember that doctor working for the HSE a few years back who had been struck off the medical register as unfit to practice in the UK??
    References weren't checked, it's actually very common.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭WeeBushy


    For my last job my references weren't checked (I asked them). For the job before that one was... it really depends. For a part time, presumably fairly unskilled, job I would imagine its less likely that they check.

    But think about it:

    Your references are bogus and they find out: no chance of getting the job.

    Your references are tenuous (a Tesco manager who doesn't remember you from Adam) or potentially not that relevant (a lecturer, perhaps): maybe you get a generic reference. But its at least real.

    If you want the job enough you'd find a direct contact or you'd at least be honest and put in the closest contact details you have.

    /imo

    Edit: Sorry, I came on a bit aggressive there. I didn't read your OP properly and took it that you weren't bothered by your references. Apologies.

    If I were you I'd put down the best contact details you have or can get. If it is a fairly standard job I doubt they're going to be expecting fireworks from your references anyway. I would imagine that they would really be checking to make sure you're a functional human being.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 BarneyTrouble


    Just have on your CV References available on request


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 705 ✭✭✭keepkeyyellow


    References are a pain, my main reference the place I worked for 4 years in, she never picks up the phone because the shop closed down and she thinks they're all creditors


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭Pandoras Twist


    References are a pain, my main reference the place I worked for 4 years in, she never picks up the phone because the shop closed down and she thinks they're all creditors

    Get a written reference


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    Get a written reference

    Good luck with that, nowhere accepts or asks for written references anymore. Academic references for postgraduate work etc. yes, actual employment, no.


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