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Better have 3 references - to apply to Command Health

Posted: Sep 27, 2014

I could not upload my application and resume due to not having 3 references.

my son (not an MT) - needed five!

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and they couldn't be friends or family.

Tired of being blocked by technology! - stupid

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Everyone cannot fit into a nice neat package for technology's sake. There are explainable, extenuating circumstances, but you can't get past the machine to talk to the human.

I don't want to work for anyone who demands 3 references anyway, and I really should be looking elsewhere since our time is almost up in this "profession."

This has happened to me several times trying to apply to jobs. It's rocky mountain oysters, as far as I'm concerned.

Just make them up and give phone numbers - that go back to that

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endless hold or automatic voice mail that you always get when you call everywhere!

But seriously, if you know you can do the job, that you have been and for some reason don't have a reference, put something in the blank and try to get it to submit, then follow up with a phone call, if they are reachable or follow it with a letter, stating that you put in
Blank, Blank
123 N. ABC Street
888-888-8888

to make it go through because you think you are a worthwhile candidate that can do the job, (maybe have been doing the job) and for some reason you don't have the references or otherwise explain your extenuating circumstances.

It is a very lonely, isolated existence we have...I can see people not having references.

My husband went to apply for a job and his 3 former employers had either died, moved or gone out of business. It was sort of strange, but there just wasn't anyone to talk to! For a while I was thinking he might be the death knell to a business, but this last one has worked out much better (going on 7 years!).

If you want a job ... - you have to provide what is requested

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If an employer wants three references, you need to provide them. Come up with SOMEONE. Don't you have former coworkers, a pastor, the teacher in charge of the PTA?

What extenuating circumstances could you have that prevent having references? You are a criminal on the lam? Don't laugh, because that is what employers will think.

Do you truly have no prior jobs, no pastor, and know NO ONE AT ALL?

They are not asking for letters. They want names and phone numbers. In my entire career, I have never had a company check with any references I provided.

Give the supervisor or QA at a company you worked for and the HR phone number. They will only confirm that you worked there or not.

FYI some companies want company/business - sm

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references only and state explicitly no friends or family as references so if you've worked at home for many years and have little to no previous jobs it does make it very hard to provide 3 references.

I agree. This is a problem - sm

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I have a job presently and they will provide employment verification, but no references (MM). The last 3 companies that I worked for in 15 years are all out of business now. I do have personal references, but no recent professional references. It is a problem.

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