Reference Checking Guide

U.S. Office of Personnel Management. (2008). Reference Checking Guide.

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

2008

Link

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/assessment-and-selection/other-assessment-methods/referencechecking.pdf

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Mechanisms

• Reference Check
  • The discipline is to calibrate each referee against their own baseline, ask questions whose answers would differ for a strong and a weak candidate

    This sourceRecommends job-relevant, behavior-based reference questions that probe strengths, weaknesses, recommendations, and past performance.

Verification

This reference passed the adversarial substantiation pipeline: it was checked to exist and to support the claim it is attached to. See how references were verified.

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