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Elliotbay

When providing references to your interviewer of a new company, should you include references from your current employer? Does the interviewer expect this?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at Friday, July 8, 2011 at 02:57PM by mp3bu.

RepoToronto

I believe that depends on the interviewer and on your personal circumstances. In my experience it's not customary to provide references from your current employer since you'd normally be expected not to have told your employer and your current colleagues about your ongoing job hunt, that would be detrimental to your current job should you fail to land another job. But if you're an a temporary job contract, one that is about to expire, the entire situation is different.

Iginla2010

Agree with k-calculi. Just explain that your boss doesn't know you're leaving but that you can provide testimonials or references from other colleagues. If I were you I'd look to see if you have any colleagues, either teammates or people that work on a different function but whom you'd trust, and have them vouch for you. In my case, when I was leaving equity research in search of a PE job, I didn't give the info of my boss but had fellow associates and someone from the publications/oversight team who could vouch for me. Mostly, prospective employers are just calling references to get a sense of who you are personally, an overall impression of your work, and whether your values and commendable. You don't need a direct supervisor to attest to that in a job reference if you have other people.

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