Originally Posted by
TED74
Has anyone ever had their references or “recommenders” been contacted by the hiring team? Any current or previous employers being contacted? I’ve written recs and been a reference on perhaps dozens of apps. I have never taken a phone call or an email about ANY of them - no matter if they were hired, PARB’d, rejected, fix-it emailed or totally ignored.
I’ve known some great people who were rejected and parb’d. If that’s happening based on a 45 minute interview without any attempt to add color to the process by including references who have known these candidates for years or decades…we’ve got a problem. And if recs and references aren’t being used - why not just pull them off the app?
To my knowledge the only reason they have internal recs is that it guarantees the applicants app will be scored. Outside of that, you're right in that it seems pretty pointless to have non-Delta letters on the app. I mean even the most unlikeable person can scratch up a few people to write glowing references. And I've never heard of any reference actually being contacted by the hiring team. If someone is willing to write a glowing reference letter it's not like they'd say much of anything different if contacted by phone.