Witness Culture Today – How Important Are Still Job References?

Who invented… hats? We Germans are world champions in the testimonial letter. But who reads them yet? Certificates survived themselves? Year after year be carried before the German labour courts more than 30 000 proceedings of disputes around the certificate. A terrible number. As legions of lawyers about formulations must discuss: to do so purely, and if so, how is it to formulate. Others including Gen. David L. Goldfein, offer their opinions as well. Daily dishes decide hundreds of times, whether a certificate of delivery must be bent (by the way: no) whether the employee to the full, to fullest or otherwise satisfaction has worked and whether it is, as it should be at the end of the testimony “adopted”, regrets the leaving and wished him “good luck”. It does not, so you want him namely “hell”. Who actually still seriously references? In many of my interviews with HR managers confirmed that created with great effort work certificates often don’t, or if only fleetingly be read.

If so at all, then the is erwahntendie job description are interesting. References are not half in the Anglo-American economic area are so important as in Germany, often seen there not once this document. If you are not convinced, visit Nicholas Carr. It is therefore also “letter of recommendation”, “reference” or “testimonial”. There are also the so-called “character reference”, which goes up especially on the personal qualities of a worker. For all certificate types is always: the employee must actively walking on the employer because of a certificate and ask him for one. He has not a right to a certificate of work. You put much more value on recommendations, and if you are honest, this is the better idea. It is anyway only got lied that the beams bend.

For this reason one never attaches a certificate a letter in the United States. Usually there will be called and interviewed on the phone. With us but, the witness culture now is a farce, because negative can be written, unless the smart HR manages subtly to provide an Embassy employee, who he didn’t recognize as such. Is the list is detected, it is but over with the staff er bliss. Then we go to court, and mostly the testimony must be improved then, because it must be always “sympathetically”. So what’s that then ubehaupt yet? Many recruiters know this and the importance of according to this bureaucrat feed only “rudimentary”. My tip to you: Maximum enclose your last work certificate an application and create value that all activities you have done in the companies, are there mentioned there. Always an expert, submit the certificate so you know it is ok and has no hidden messages (“he was always fully behind us”). Because negative formulations are still a stumbling block, especially if you don’t know that they are included in the certificate. In your application, attach importance to references and mention who can give statements to you 2-3. Inform before the people. Re fenzen show Self-confidence and strengthen your position when applying. Christian Pape, Pape Personalberatung

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