Employment Reference Check

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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 ✅
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​Invite ​📩
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Property Management
Yes
​Quickscreen ✅
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​Invite 📩
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Parameters
Get your applicant's consent: Disclosure​
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
See all available Application parameters​
Quickscreen parameters
To complete a quickscreen, include these parameters in the body of your request:
​information 
first_name
last_name
​employers (min 1)
Email: contact_email
or
Phone: contact_phone
Example request
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{
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    "email": "[email protected]",
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    "request_employer_references": true,
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    "employer_questionaire_id": "b123b4cd-1a23-1a23-12a3-a123456b7890",
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    "information": {
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        "first_name": "Andrew",
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        "last_name": "McLeod",
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        "addresses": [{
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                "address": "4412 King Alfred Court",
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                "city": "Victoria",
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                "province_state": "BC",
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                "country": "CA"
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            }
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        ],
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        "employers": [{
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                "position": "Mechanic",
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                "company_name": "Bob's Mechanics",
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                "contact_first_name": "Bob",
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                "contact_last_name": "Mechanic",
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                "contact_position": "Owner",
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                "contact_email": "[email protected]",
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                "contact_phone": "12505555555",
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                "can_contact": true,
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                "start_date": "2010-01-01",
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                "end_date": "2020-12-23",
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            }
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        ]
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    }
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}
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