Customer question on Resume References

After over 25 years with my company as an Admin Assistant, my job was eliminated. Their policy is not to provide any information about a former employee – just how long they were there and their title. If supervisors and co-workers I worked with are prohibited from providing references, how do I handle this?

-Millie

Don’s answer to resume references

I would find other references, or just list those people anyway and probably the latter. Let your interviewer figure out that they are not permitted to communicate. It’s still a reference, and who knows, maybe those people will accidentally slip-up and start babbling about all the great things you did there. But under no circumstances should you tell your interviewer that these people are not allowed to provide any information.

Don

Here is a Sample list of formatted references you can download for free

Resume References Format – Sample List of Job references

I also have two other great articles on Resume References Format and on formatting a list of job references.