Examples of questions to ask someone’s references during an interview process?
My team recently just terminated our admin assistant for many reasons. One was compulsive lying that we were able to prove. After she was terminated, we saw she lied on her resume she posted on LinkedIn by making up responsibilities we never remotely gave her under her former position with us. We were already suspicious that she had made some of her experience up due to her not being able to perform tasks she claimed to do all the time, like edit PowerPoints. Seeing her lie about what she did for us really made me wonder about what else on her resume is made up.
In hiring her replacement, we are going to do PowerPoint and excel assessments this time. However, I was also wondering about calling references this time around? For those who have done that, are there specific types of references that are red or green flags? Any questions good to ask references to evaluate the honesty of previous experience in a way that isn’t just a yes or no answer?
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intervewing for same role twice
1 year ago I interviewed for a company made it to the 4th last interview . I rescheduled the last interview 2x because I was sick but I had to suck it up and still go sick otherwise my opportunity would pass .
i ended up bombing it bc I was too sick and I could not reschedule for a third time
I applied for the same job again , do you think they will give me a second chance if I explain I was sick the first time ? I executed every interview before that
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Ethnic minorities do wirk quite hard actually, and I think they are getting underestimated at times.
The statue of a slave owner was on the grounds of the first. I didn't think too much into it.
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It is like 12 years that they are doing this. I was grad school, when my undergraduate boss had started to this. And after that my grad supervisors were doing this.
It is work done, that's why money is coming to it. It's a professional contract. Just misusing a psychological contract is not on. It's immoral.
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