Scoring a positive reference check can MAKE or BREAK your success as a job candidate. Follow these simple steps to ensure your referees are helping, not hindering your chances of success:

Our RÈLIER angels often give advice on how to add some razzle dazzle to your resume & wow your potential employer throughout the interview process. Although making it through these stages is worth a pat on the back, you're not out of the woods yet! Once the interviews are said & done we must move onto the final make-or-break moment, aka reference checks... 

When it comes to how many referees you should provide, two is always better than one. Potential employers will be looking for consistent answers from multiple sources to ensure you are as fabulous as you appear to be. To ensure both of your references give you a glowing review, it's crucial that you give them the heads up that someone will be calling. This is not only the polite thing to do, but it allows them to be clear and concise when discussing your impressive abilities.

Who should you ask to be a reference? It's important to approach someone who you've had a positive working relationship with. They must also have been your manager or more senior than you, to ensure your new potential employer regards them as a credible source. Speaking of credible sources, they will want to speak with those who are relevant in your present-day work life... that means no putting down your Baskin Robins line manager from your high school days. Relevance is key and providing an underqualified, irrelevant, or old reference will undo all the hard work you've put into the interview process thus far!