Answer this truthfully; do you think listing down known names on your references will gain positive endorsement for you? If your answer is yes, you are also one of the too many who will get in troubled for believing it. Employers does not only look at references as mere positive endorsement of the candidates but they see pass through it. You need to understand what employers look for in references, do this, by keeping in mind that name dropping will not work great wonders for you. Employers look a specific set of the reference listed in the resume. If you put the right persons to be either your professional or personal reference will put your application back in the employers desk if it is already in the mouth of the rejected pile.

By selecting whose names you will put in your resume would be like targeting the bulls eye. It would be like hiring the work of background services that will search only the compelling approval and endorsements on you. It might even right to say that convincing reference will be enough to get you signed for the job you are applying for. This will all work for you only if exactly understand the importance of whos who in your list of reference. To know this, the very first question you will ask by considering that certain person to be one of your reference is his/her relevance to you with regard to the job you are applying for. So if you want to make your friend/neighbor lawyer on the next block from your house to be your reference, forget it. This means that you must focus more on putting professional references a.k.a your previous employers, supervisor or manager - that are relevant and credible to detail your qualities in the work field.

The next thing you should ask is, are the lists of person you consider to be part of your references can be contacted and actually return call? Are they not snobbish? This is where the importance of coordinating with your references to inform them. By calling or sending emails to them, you will know their availability. If by chance your references are out for travel or vacation, ask them when they will come back so you could inform your employer to arrange a schedule of when to conduct a call. You need to be detailed about this since most employers treat checking on your references with urgency. If no delayed or no response is what they will face will surely decrease big points from you. Express how much their response means in your job application so you can get their cooperation.

Indeed, with the right references you have on your resume is like appointing a credible report from background services[ that will only accomplished a report that will put the spotlight over your head. Make sure to coordinate with them first but ask them to give honest commentaries. If you have the effort to call them and ask for their cooperation, surely, even honesty is what you ask for, they will certainly back you up and validate all your claims in your resume or during an interview. Dont forget to thank them in the end, alright?