Employment Reference Check

Phone reference check
A phone reference check includes manually calling your candidate's supplied reference to answer a list of questions and the summary of the reference call is included in your Certn report. Certn has a standard list of questions or the customer can provide their own.
Digital reference check
A digital reference check includes submitting employment reference questionnaires using our standard questions or allows you to supply a customized list of questions to verify the best applicant.
Availability
This check is available in Canada 🇨🇦
 and the US 🇺🇸
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This check is available for a quickscreen ✅
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Canada 
US
Industry
Availability
Endpoints
Human Resources
Yes
​Quickscreen ✅
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​Invite ​📩
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Property Management
Yes
​Quickscreen ✅
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​Invite 📩
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Industry
Availability
Endpoints
Human Resources
Yes
​Quickscreen ✅
​
​Invite ​📩
​
Property Management
Yes
​Quickscreen ✅
​
​Invite 📩
​
Parameters
Request flag
Include one of these flags in the body of your request:
Email: request_employer_references 
Phone: request_employer_phone_references 
Optional flags
Set these flags explicitly, or leave them out to use your team's default settings:
employer_references_years_or_individually
employer_references_years
employer_references_min
employer_references_max
See all Employment Reference flags ​
Invite parameters
To invite an applicant to complete a screen, include this parameter in the body of your request:
email
employer_questionaire_id
​Find your questionnaire ID number​
See all available Application parameters​
Quickscreen parameters
The following parameters will officially take effect on November 16th, 2022. 
These changes will be live on our Demo environment for you to test as of September 14th, 2022.
To complete a quickscreen, include these parameters in the body of your request:
​information 
first_name
last_name
address
​employer_references (min 1)
Email: email 
or
Phone: phone_number 
Make sure to obtain the proof of consent from your applicant before running the quickscreen.
Example request
{
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "request_employer_phone_references": true,
  "employer_questionaire_id": "b123b4cd-1a23-1a23-12a3-a123456b7890",
  "information": {
    "first_name": "Andrew",
    "last_name": "McLeod",
    "addresses": [
      {
        "address": "4412 King Alfred Court",
        "city": "Victoria",
        "province_state": "BC",
        "country": "CA"
      }
    ],
    "employer_references": [
      {
        "company_name": "Bob's Mechanics",
        "position": "Mechanic",
        "start_date": "2010-01-01",
        "end_date": "2020-12-23",
        "first_name": "Bob",
        "last_name": "Mechanic",
        "reference_job_title": "Head Mechanic",
        "relationship": "Supervisor",
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "phone_number": "12501234567"
      }
    ]
  }
}
Report
Report field: reference_result 

Industry	Availability	Endpoints
Human Resources	Yes	Quickscreen ✅ Invite 📩
Property Management	Yes	Quickscreen ✅ Invite 📩

Industry	Availability	Endpoints
Human Resources	Yes	Quickscreen ✅ Invite 📩
Property Management	Yes	Quickscreen ✅ Invite 📩

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