{"id":222,"date":"2012-10-05T15:32:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/internshipblog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2024-01-30T13:55:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T18:55:31","slug":"what-do-your-references-say-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/what-do-your-references-say-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What do your references say about you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/internshipblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-223\" title=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/internshipblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/11-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>Thinking about your prospects for landing that new\u00a0job?\u00a0 You should think first about what your former boss and other references will say about you. There is no doubt that, for many job searchers, a person\u2019s previous employers will have a direct bearing on their future. However, more than a few <em>job seekers<\/em> are under erroneous impressions about what there former employers are allowed to (or what they will) say \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newgradlife.blogspot.com\/\">New Grad Life <\/a>\u00a0provides examples of\u00a0some commonly held myths:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about your prospects for landing that new\u00a0job?\u00a0 You should think first about what your former boss and other references will say about you. There is no doubt that, for many job searchers, a person\u2019s previous employers will have a direct bearing on their future. However, more than a few job seekers are under erroneous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/what-do-your-references-say-about-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What do your references say about you?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>What do your references say about you? - Careers &amp; Internships<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/what-do-your-references-say-about-you\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What do your references say about you? - Careers &amp; Internships\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thinking about your prospects for landing that new\u00a0job?\u00a0 You should think first about what your former boss and other references will say about you. 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