A weekly blog post with quick answers to questions about careers and job searches

Travis is asking for advise on handling references in a job search.

Travis, here are 4 important tips to help you:

1. Choose references who can best speak to your skills that match with the qualifications in the job description

2. Contact the reference explain your fit for the position and ask your reference if she could speak favourably about your fit

3. Send an email thanking your reference for helping you and include your resume cover letter, the job description and a most importantly, a “friendly reminder” bulleted list of your successes that you hope she could speak to in her reference call.

4. References are like gold so thank each reference after you complete the interview and be sure to let them know how t,hey were helpful when you land the position.

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Are you considering a career transition? Wayne Greenway is the Chief Executive Officer for Career Aviators. Career Aviators a Certified B Corporation® helps professionals, managers, and executives find positions in which they will excel, value highly, and love to do. The profits from our work support programs to help vulnerable youth flourish in the face of highly stressful life situations.