All About Your Reference List And Etiquette

An Overview:

When a company hires you, it is both sides commitment to work together. Therefore, the company would like to know about your background and whether you are the right choice to work for the job. Because an interview is a very short time that they spend with you, and because they cannot spend a lot of time with every interviewee, some of the aspects of the interview are scheduled for further interaction – like questions about your reference list.

What Is Your Reference List?

This is a list of people whom you have worked with, or have come in contact with you professionally. There are two types of reference lists, one is the personal reference list and the other is the professional reference list. The personal reference list may contain friends, teachers, university professors, is basically a list of people who can vouch for you, when it comes to whether you are suited for a professional life.
A professional reference list is a list of people who know you on a professional level, and have either worked with you or have come in contact with you on a professional level – superiors, co-workers or customers and colleagues. Generally, the interviewer will ask a personal reference list to a newbie, and a professional reference list to an experienced professional. The most commonly asked reference list is the professional reference list.

Reference List Etiquette:

While filling up the reference list, make sure that the person knows you on a professional level so well that he or she would be okay with answering questions about you to an interviewer. Also, while filling up the list, you would either need to fill up the name of a person who has been or is your colleague and of the person whom you were immediately repeating to.
While it is okay to contact them and inform them that they might get a reference call, you should refrain from tutoring them about what to reply to the interviewer.