I did recently a radio interview with Peter Clayton on my book Reference Check 2.0.
Listen to the full interview here.
Best sections:
“The interesting thing is that typically when we speak today about social networking strategy … 99% of the time, what it means it’s a sourcing social networking strategy. … What we’re saying here is that social networking has more than one usage … it’s also enabling to assess the quality of those people.”
“If you use the traditional method (manual reference checking) and don’t spend the time to do it very well, I would say stop doing it or migrate to a 2.0 version, to the Reference Check 2.0 version. Because the way it’s done today it’s literally a waste of time. The test really for your listeners that are head of talent acquisition departments is to ask the question: “when is the last time that you disregarded or didn’t hire someone because of a bad reference check?”