TrainingBriefs® Conducting Legal Reference Checks

Every day, organizations come under fire for hiring people with a past the company should, and could have, been aware of. Studies show that over 30 percent of all résumés contain fabrications. So checking out references and doing thorough background research on a candidate is becoming more and more important.

Checking references is often seen as one small piece of the hiring protocol—the final motion to go through before you extend a formal offer to a candidate. But viewing reference checks as a formality is a mistake.