Reference Checks

You think you’ve found the perfect candidate. Now, you just have to go through the motions of checking references. One problem: you aren’t getting the ecstatic praise you had expected. The commentary from former bosses and coworkers isn’t bad. It just isn’t good either.  What can you learn from this? How do you decipher a neutral reference check?  It’s a complicated process of decoding. It’s like reading a…