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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW, as an employer I would never make a job offer without being able to talk to references--that's an important part of the evaluation process. That doesn't mean you need to give them at the first meeting, but if you declined to provide references without an offer in hand, I would move on to the next candidate.

I found both recent and longest valuable (when not the same).  Most people we interviewed provided a list of the past 10 years of employment (so for some that = 4-5 positions, and for others it was just 1-2) with a letter from the most recent family.[/quote]

And if I provided references to everyone who interviewed me, I wouldn’t have any references left.  I give a letter per family and a list of families, you may have contact info when I know I’m in the top three or better, I’m not going to give it out when I have 25% or worse chance.[/quote]

You don't provide references to everyone who interviews you (and references are not one-time-use!) You put "references available upon request," and a family who is seriously considering hiring you asks for and calls your references. Reference checking is the very last stage in any hiring process, child care or otherwise.

We have never called references for anyone we didn't intend to make an offer to (and did in fact make offers to those whose references we called). But we would never, ever make an offer without checking references first, and if you came into an interview telling me you needed an offer in hand to provide them, that would be a huge red flag.[/quote]

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