Verifile - References

[Darth_Baz]

Hi,

I have been a contractor for 20 years and my past few contracts have been PM contracts, due health reasons I have decided to take a perm role.

However I am wondering how to handle a potential issue with Verifile (pre screening - References)

On my CV I have the job title of "Project Manager" thats what I was doing on my recent gigs no issues. However I was hired as a "Lead Developer" on one gig, but was doing PM work so I put PM as my job title on my CV (to keep things consistent) . I am worried that screening References will not match my CV title. Any one had this issues with verifile , any ideas?

[northernladuk]

You'll be fine. They might check your start and leave dates but that's it. If, in the very unlikely event they do ask just explain it. It's not like you are lying and doesn't change anything.

[edison]

You'll be fine. They might check your start and leave dates but that's it. If, in the very unlikely event they do ask just explain it. It's not like you are lying and doesn't change anything.

That wasn't my recent experience. I had to provide 10 years of references which was an initial pain to have to contact all my old referees to ask for their permission to be approached.

Then they asked for my degree certificate which is nearing 30 years ago and whose subject is pretty irrelevant to the role I was going for.

I had two main issues. Firstly, they really struggled to grasp the concept that I had done a mix of perm, contracting and sub-contracting roles in the last 10 years and that I had had some long gaps (6-12 months) in that time partly because I just wanted a long break.

Sub-contracting really threw them. Ironically some of it was for a company owned by a family relative (which I disclosed.) Yet they still asked for a written reference from them, not just dates which seemed pointless - as if they would give me a bad one! They wanted details on the end clients I had worked for but my relative could not disclose these due to NDAs. In the end I had to give a very generic explanation of each piece of work I had done along the lines of 'provided IT consultancy expertise for a software firm specialising in the financial services sector'.


It was a very messy onboarding process that took almost 3 weeks and maybe a dozen emails and calls to sort out.

Thankfully I got the gig!