Bringing Pleasure to the Pain Point of the HR Industry

When was the last time you changed jobs? When was the last time you hired someone? Was there any part of the reference-checking process that you found satisfactory? We bet that it was probably difficult, time-consuming, and ultimately of little value. In fact, we’ve bet our entire business on that.

The war for talent is more competitive than ever. However, many recruiters are still reluctant to adapt to the new habits - and expectations - of today’s market, despite the advantage it would give them in attracting the best people.

The practice of employing staff to manually collect candidate references must be consigned to history. It has created a battlefield fraught with risk, shadowed by unnecessary expense and littered with human error. HR leaders and recruiters are beginning to question how and when their industry will catch up.

Six years ago, Xref CEO and co-founder Lee-Martin Seymour realised he was one of these people. He was surrounded by old world HR & Recruitment traditions, despite the solutions that new technologies could offer.