In my course at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, students frequently ask case guests: What is the most important thing you do as a leader? The response is always the same: hiring and ...

Even if your company hasn’t communicated a stance on dealing with reference checks, you may have heard cautionary tales about the danger of sharing information. You might even have heard that it’s ...

Reference checking is a personnel selection procedure that is widely used across the world. In reference checking, potential employers request information from informants who have previously worked ...

Checking references after an interview has been standard hiring practice for a long time – but what if this method fails to give hiring managers the full picture? When asked for references, most job ...