How to Give a Positive Reference for an Employee

Video Transcript

"We all love giving positive references but there is a way to do it. I'm Gloria Campbell with Advantage Training Systems in St. Petersburg, Florida. And I want to make sure that if you are going to give a positive reference for an employee that you do a good job. You want to make sure that any reference that you give that it is very factual first of all. And you also want to make sure that you are very subjective or objective in terms of the information that you are giving. Normally that person at the other end really doesn't care whether they were friendly or outgoing but it was, were they a team player. And how did they contribute to the team. In what ways, were they the type of person that would really work until a job was done. So if you are going to give a positive reference make sure that you first of all think, if I was going to hire this employee what information would I want to know. Make sure that it's objective, and that it can be supported and that you really give them very specific information about that particular employee. My name is Gloria Campbell with Advantage Training Systems in St. Petersburg, Florida. Giving those positive references, we all love it, but just make sure you give that person the best possible reference by including some very subjective information."