Your cover letter and résumé have attracted the interest of multiple employers. To glean more information about you, hiring managers for each company will likely call the people on your reference list ...

Day 7: Secure your references. This post is part of Forbes’ Career Challenge: Get Job-Search Ready In 15 Days. Job seekers are free to toot their own horns on résumés and cover letters. So for a ...

One of the last things many job seekers do prior to submitting a resume is tack on the perfunctory “References Available Upon Request” at the bottom of the document. Most don’t give the statement a ...

When you need to add helpful references to slides in your business presentations, you can use the same referencing system that the Royal Society of Chemistry recommends using when creating ...

To edit a drop-down list in Excel, you can use a number of tools depending on how you created the list. Here's what you need ...

When is the correct time for a recruiter or employer to request my professional references? I was asked by an ex-colleague of mine to submit a resume for a job opening in his company. I submitted the ...

One of the most critical moments for a search committee, and one of the more perilous for an applicant, is when it gathers information from people who are not on the candidate’s list of references. I ...

You can easily create a drop-down list in Excel to limit the values that can be entered in a column. Here's how to set one up ...

A service member at a recent event asked whether it is a good idea for transitioning service members to provide references from their military past, and if so, who should they list? The plain and ...