Professional Reference Checks
Get a fistful of insights from candidates’ past employers, colleagues, and associates — without lifting a finger.
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Validate your hiring hunches with Certn.
See through any resume.
With Certn’s comprehensive reference checks, you’ll gain additional perspective into a candidate’s skills, accomplishments, and characteristics.
Hire at the speed of AI.
Certn’s technology cuts down on painstaking turnaround times for reference checks.
Create a culture of credibility.
By systematically checking candidates’ references, you build workforce confidence and mitigate safety, compliance, and financial risks.
What you get from Certn’s Reference Checks:
Reference checks as simple as 1, 2, 3.
Certn is the easiest way to check your candidates’ backgrounds. There’s no setup fees, no minimums, and no hassle.
1. Choose your reference type: Digital or Phone Reference.
If you opt for a digital reference check, references complete a simple, customizable, online questionaire. If you opt for a phone reference check, references are interviewed by Certn’s verifications team.
2. Send your reference checks.
Your candidate will be asked to provide 1-3 references for our team to interview (via digital or phone reference).
3. Your detailed report gets created.
Results are consolidated and sent for your review.

Get the world’s easiest reference checks with Certn.
FAQs
A professional reference check helps you gain additional insight about a candidate you may not learn from a resume or interview such as job performance and skills, work accomplishments, and personal characteristics. This is done by asking a series of questions either by email.
A professional reference check will show the questionnaire results in the report, available in your Certn dashboard.
All that’s needed is the candidate’s name and email to start the check. You can customize the questionnaire with the questions you require.
Candidates will be asked to supply reference details in their background check.
In a digital reference check, an automated email is sent to the provided reference to complete the questionnaire.
The responses are available in your Certn dashboard.
Turnaround times depend on the responsiveness of the references but Certn’s in-house Verifications team initiates the process within one business day.