Reference Checks

Using a professional reference checking firm - like Y2 Consulting Psychologists - to conduct reference checks prior to making personnel selection decisions, helps employers select the most qualified - the right - candidates.

Now it's even easier with Y2's On-line Reference Check System. It will give you more feedback in less time and with less effort than phone-based reference checking.

Online Reference checks
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Benefits

Why use Y2's online reference check system?

Cost effective:	A fraction of the price of a phone or in-person reference check.
Efficient:	Replaces time-consuming phone or face-to-face reference checks.
Valid and reliable:	Developed by industrial psychologists and HR specialists.
Easy to use:	Both for the client, in selecting the reference check questions, and for the referees, in completing the reference check on line at their convenience.
Flexible:	Clients can easily add their own competencies, behaviours and questions.
Comprehensive:	Adapted to the needs of both the public and private sectors, with a bank of more than 100 competencies - including key leadership competencies - and behaviours.
Bilingual:	Available in both official languages.

Reference Check

Why check references?

• Past performance is one of the strongest predictors of future performance.
• An investment in reference checking can reduce costs and increase productivity, by helping to ensure successful hires.
• Reference checks can help you determine which candidate will be the best fit for the position.
• Managers can minimize the risk of hiring an employee who won't be able to succeed in the new job if they take the time to try to find out about previous job performance.
• Managers will also gain greater insights into the candidate's skills, knowledge and abilities from someone who has actually observed the candidate perform.
• Checking references before making an offer can actually save time, money, effort, and a lot of embarrassment. Employment experts estimate that 30 percent of all resumes contain false or exaggerated information.

"Hiring the wrong person can be a costly mistake… Good reference checking has become a necessity in today's world of rapidly changing standards and expectations."

"Overall, checking references properly is well worth the time and effort. Placing the right people in the right jobs should be a goal of any well-run employment function. The long-term success of the organization may depend on how well this is carried out."

Source: The Complete Reference Checking Handbook, Edward C. Andler with Dara Herbst, pg 230.

Expertise

Y2 Consulting Psychologists offers reliable, rapid and high-quality professional services in both official languages. Its team of consultants has conducted thousands of behaviourally-based reference checks.

Y2's managing partners, Yaniv Benzimra, Ph.D. and Yannick Mailloux, Ph.D., have sound knowledge of the personnel selection processes used by the PSC. They have worked extensively as psychologists for the Personnel Psychology Centre of the PSC, assessing hundreds of middle and senior level managers.

Testimonials

"As someone who has carried out hundreds of reference checks for the public and private sectors, and for candidates competing for positions ranging from AS-02 to EX-03, I believe Y2 Consulting Psychologists' online 360 reference check system is an effective and efficient alternative to in-person or telephone reference checking. The information provided by referees within a fixed time period, as their schedules allow, is more comprehensive and, generally-speaking, more straightforward."

Leaman Long
Former Executive Director, Federal Communications Council
(forerunner of the Communications Community Office)