From the course: Job Hunting for College Grads
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Line up your job references
From the course: Job Hunting for College Grads
Line up your job references
- My senior year of college, my friend had just come back from a job interview that went unbelievably well. She was on cloud nine. They told her she was their ideal candidate and they would get back to her within a week about next steps. Then the day after the interview, she gets an email saying, "And one more thing, can you send us a list of three to five references who can speak to your experience?" She called me in a panic. Who could she list as references and what did that request even mean? A reference is someone who you have worked with and preferably worked for who will say positive things about you and assure the company you applied to that you'd be a good fit. It's ideal to have prior managers as your references. You can also rely on co-workers, professors, or anyone else who can speak to your qualifications for a job. For college students. it could even be the family you used to babysit for or your…
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