Job reference check

Well, my company was hiring test programmer. One of the candidate who is shortlisted (among 60 applications) became the final candidate (she is Malaysian as well) and people are excited about it because she is quite pretty hehe.

My PM sit behind me and therefore I know we are going to hire her from his conversation with another manager. she will be hired if reference check are done. First reference check went fine but not the second one! The second reference check gave her quite bad impression to my PM and the decision to hire her was dropped immediately due to this! Even we had to re-select again and ask the recruitment agent to find another one all over again.

So guys and gals, please, when you are working, be professional and leave your job in good term. I don't know why she chose that to be her reference but it really screwed her up due to his input. This is not the first time I saw this. Reference check is quite crucial in NZ here and they will call to Malaysia (my manager called all my ex-bosses who hired me as developer before when he did my reference check). So, choose your reference wisely.