Refer-e Online Reference Verification
Checking a candidate’s references is a critical step in the hiring process.
Yet, for most businesses, phone-based references prove costly and time-consuming,
and can often leave the hiring manager with incomplete—even inaccurate—information.
Most phone references are reluctant to provide candid feedback about an applicant’s
skills and abilities—particularly those that need improvement.
As a solution, USIS has partnered with SkillSurvey to offer Refer-e, an online professional
verification tool that facilitates confidential, 360-degree-style electronic verifications.
Through the Refer-e process, companies can easily acquire a candidate’s past
job performance information, including a comprehensive evaluation of job skills
and professional behaviors.
With Refer-e, employers can:
- Increase the Quality of Hire, by enabling fully informed hiring decisions that includes
an accurate picture of a candidate’s past job performance.
- Increase Recruiter Productivity, by eliminating reference check phone calls and
creating more time to focus on recruiting.
- Fill Jobs Faster, with an average turnaround time of 1.6 days, as compared to three
to five days via phone.
- Decrease Hiring Risk via a consistent, documented and measurable reference-checking
process.
Benefits of Refer-e:
- Includes up to five separate references and provides the client with a summary of
aggregated results, so there is no need to review each of the reference results
- Confidential, online process makes references more comfortable when evaluating a
past employee’s performance, yielding more candid results
- Library of competency-based surveys available, targeting multiple corporate job
profiles
- References can respond 24 hours a day, seven days a week, whereas phone-based references
are conducted primarily during business hours
Refer-e is offered by USIS through a partnership with SkillSurvey. SkillSurvey’s
PreHire 360 technology, upon which Refer-e is based, was recently named a Top 10
HR Product of 2007 by HR Executive Magazine.
For more information, call 866-205-6129 or email sales@usis.com.