Do you mean like people referring potential employees to them or the references of job applicants? I wasn’t aware of what companies rely on more in recruitment.
I meant people who work in a company referring future potential employees.
I was very surprised to see Peer Ratings being so useful for predicting performance
Very belated edit to add: if your workplace has a bunch of real work, someone needs to get things done on your team. If your teammates are slackers or generally incompetent, this means you need to pick up the slack. This could end up being pretty rough, so there’s a strong incentive to give honest referrals to future colleagues about their work performance (and not just charisma).
This is probably a very important distinction for those reading the above comments for the first time. “Referral” might be a better word so as to distinguish from “reference” letters written by past supervisors.
Do you mean like people referring potential employees to them or the references of job applicants? I wasn’t aware of what companies rely on more in recruitment.
But yeah my model of recruitment was very evidence free and mostly based on my limited experiences in recruiting people for things, turns out my model of what’s most useful was basically the opposite of what some of the evidence says (https://www.talentlens.com/content/dam/school/global/Global-Talentlens/uk/AboutUs/Whitepapers/White-Paper-The-Science-Behind-Predicting-Job-Performance-at-Recruitment.pdf), I was very surprised to see Peer Ratings being so useful for predicting performance.
I meant people who work in a company referring future potential employees.
Very belated edit to add: if your workplace has a bunch of real work, someone needs to get things done on your team. If your teammates are slackers or generally incompetent, this means you need to pick up the slack. This could end up being pretty rough, so there’s a strong incentive to give honest referrals to future colleagues about their work performance (and not just charisma).
This is probably a very important distinction for those reading the above comments for the first time. “Referral” might be a better word so as to distinguish from “reference” letters written by past supervisors.