推薦人助你找到下一份工作的9個方法

You’re going for a new job, so you’ve dusted off your resume, written a great cover letter, and pulled out your list of references. But before you send your prospective new employer to your go-to list of cheerleaders, ask yourself one question: Am I sure my references are helping me?

你要去找一份新的工作，所以你將擱置一旁的簡歷備好待用，寫好一封求職信，並且把推薦人也羅列出來。但是，在將這些文件發給你的新僱主之前，請問一下自己，這些推薦人真的能幫到我嗎？

“I can’t tell you the number of times over 43 years I’ve been doing that, that I’ve had someone’s references screw the candidate’s chances to get the job,” says Anthony W. Beshara, PhD, president of Babich & Associates, a Dallas recruitment and placement firm.

Babich是達拉斯一家負責安置和招聘的公司，這個公司的總裁Anthony W. Beshara博士說：“我不會告訴你43年來我一直在做一件事，就是與某些應聘者的推薦人接觸後，大大降低了他被錄用的可能性。”

Get your references interview-ready with these nine tips.

藉着下面這9個提示，看看你給出的推薦人是不是已經可以應對面試了呢？

Typically, you may be asked for two or three references, but you should have a much deeper pool than that, Beshara says. Pick and choose your references depending on the type of job you’re going for, he says. Some references will be able to discuss your effectiveness in certain roles, while others may be able to discuss your leadership or team-building skills. Choose the right people to talk about the skills you need to highlight to get the job at hand, he says.