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PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE CHECKING CAN SPELL THE DIFFERENCE IN LANDING A NEW POSITION OR LOSING OUT IN TOUGH TIMES

25-year national firm provides tips on the importance of effectively managing your professional references

With millions of Americans across the country looking for new jobs in the current marketplace, an applicant’s professional references can determine whether they land on their feet with a new position or struggle with continued unemployment.

The fact is that a person’s professional references are one of the most overlooked but critical tools in a comprehensive job search. Unfortunately, poor references can derail even the most promising candidate.

WHO:
Jeff Shane - Vice President, Allison & Taylor Inc., Rochester Hills, Michigan represents one of the nation’s leading professional reference checking and employment verification firms. For more information, please visit www.allisontaylor.com.

WHAT:
Mr. Shane is available to discuss the following:

• The particular importance of job references to prospective employers in the current economic environment;

• Why references are often an overlooked part of job searches, including the “seven deadly myths” of professional references;

• How a prospective job applicant should decide who to ask to provide a professional reference and how to nurture that relationship to work to their advantage;

• What steps a person should take if it is discovered that their reference’s comments are unfavorable and could hamper landing a new position;

• Extraordinary examples of what people have said to prospective employers about candidates when asked to provide a reference; and,

• What is involved in hiring a professional reference-checking firm.

• Should you do a background check on yourself to see what a potential employer will see?

WHEN:
On-camera, in-person and telephone interviews can be arranged.

CONTACT:
To arrange an interview, please contact Renee @ 530.842.7303 or renee@allisontaylor.com.

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