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.