Kate Noel: Reference checks should mandate contacts across multiple professional levels
Kate Noel · Building Your Team #6: Ask an HR Executive · Oct 1, 2021 · at 12:23
Kate Noel, Head of People at Morning Brew, explains strategies for running effective candidate reference checks to Alex Lieberman.
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“So for me, I feel like if we do have an opportunity to ask for referrals and we want something insightful to come from it, I like to give the task if it's applicable for people to give referrals at different levels. So instead of just saying, can you provide three to five referral references for us to reach out to and we'll do our thing. Sometimes I like to say, well, Can you give us a reference of someone who was a direct manager, a reference of someone who was a peer, a reference of someone who is a job or two away from where you are right now? I think that speaks to the relationships that were, they were able to hold onto, and it may cause them to mix up the bag a little bit from the stock folks that they have on the side to have considered for the interview.”
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