We’re doing for the personnel industry what credit checking did for the financial services industry; a secure employment database that is going to revolutionize the referencing process and create a faster, more secure and reliable business process for employers and HR departments.
Check references quickly as part of the application process, speeding up the recruitment process and helping you to get the real information and avoid those embellished CVs.
Save time and money and track all request effortlessly.
Use your Company Registration number, Company Name, Contact Details, Job Title and Number of employees to complete the sign up form and we'll take it to the next step.
Our investigators check that you are a legitimate company and that you are authorised to set up the account on the WorkRef platform.
Add employees by entering their National Insurance Number, Full name, Job Title, Start Date and End Date (if applicable).
Employees will be sent a welcome email explaining that your company is now on WorkRef. This includes our employee PDF which explains the benefits and FAQs.
Use the system to change or add; Job Titles, Salary increases, Qualificiations achieved and Promotions. Your employee may choose to turn information off in their preferences.
Get the ex-employer’s real story on your candidate's career history; more fact, less fiction. Accurate start and end dates, factual leaving salaries and real job titles. You’ll also be able to see if a probationary period hasn’t been passed, long gaps in employment and even unauthorised absenteeism.
Manage the references for all your employees in one place.
Once you’ve uploaded your list you’ll be able to focus in on any employee at any time while you’re online and manage their information.
You’ll also be able to look at references for any prospective employee that are on the WorkRef system, all recorded by their previous employer when they left that company.
No, but you will need to sign up if you want to get references from the system or add any employees to the system.
The first step is to sign your company up for an account. This is carefully administered process as we must ensure that only legitimate employers are added to the system as opposed to people claiming companies records and then creating false references for employees.
The bare minimum is date of employment, job title is optional as is any additional information, please note that you should be careful in leaving anything other than factual information in the reference, so measured sick days would be allowed but your opinion on their work attire should be avoided.
No, once you add an employee’s information to the system, any references that are received for that employee should be pointed to the WorkRef system.
Don’t add them but make it clear that you are only able to supply references through the WorkRef system and as a result they will not have any reference requests answered.
Normally you cannot add data to the system for employees who do not work for you, however for the first 30 days that you have access to the system you will be able to load previous employee’s data into the system.
Sign up to the system, await for your authorisation and then you will be sent a link to your dashboard so that you can login. in the menu you’ll see an add employee button, clicking this will allow you to add a single employee or use a batch upload spreadsheet process.
No – The only people who can see your current employees data are you and the employee, the system does not allow and will never visible to any third parties.
We have a dispute manager facility on the system, generally disputes are over job title and dates, remember to keep information factual. Ultimately your reference providing it is factual will not change. The dispute manager process is to correct minor administrative errors.
The only people who have access to they system are approved users in your organisation and the employee, WorkRef have admin access to the system for the purpose of maintenance and data recovery.
You can add contractors to the system, but they should be clearly marked as ‘contractor’ when adding them, most employers choose not to add them. Marking them as contractor allows them to appear on two employers lists at the same time.
It is essential that only genuine companies have access to the system, not because they view employee’s data but because they can create records for individuals, and we need to ensure only the correct individuals within each organisation are able to add employees and create references. As a result, we have a robust onboarding process.
Immediately contact us via email here with your details and we will be in touch to resolve, please note that the WorkRef record for your organisation will be immediately locked until the verification process has been followed.
It completely free to join WorkRef, we make a small charge to the organisation requesting a reference to pay for the service.
Yes - it is actually probably more GDPR compliant than your current reference requesting process. An employee is contacted by email to accept or decline a reference request each time one is requested. The data stored is detail of the employment contract, not detail of that employee.
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