Short YouTube clip (Alli Peck) demonstrating how trivial it is to fake a job reference call. The speaker role-plays/reads a staged phone reference ("Hello? Yes, this is Alex... Greatest worker I've ever had") and argues that many employers no longer check references because they are too easy to fake.
Isn't it obvious why companies don't check your references anymore? It's because of this. Hello? Yes, this is Alex. Oh, Bartholomew. Yeah. Greatest worker I've ever had. His organizational skills, 10 out of 10. Yeah. Highly recommend. Yeah. Yeah. You're welcome. Okay, bye. It's too easy to fake it. Obviously, I have never done this. Have you?
Change Your Career Without Leaving Your Job: Podcast Episode with Darcy Eikenberg
