CV Help - Reference?

[cobra kid]

Morning all.

I've been happily in this job for the last 16 years and have been asked to apply for the role above me after the guy has retired. My issue is that my CV is still the one I used to apply for this job. I think one of the referees is now dead and the other is probably uncontactable!

The job is pretty much mine if I want it to be honest. I'm the man for the job and they want me to have it.

Would you just leave the referees off it??

[Austin_Metro]

Yes. They have all the professional context about you that they need. You could add a personal referee, but I wouldn’t bother.

You need to spend your time aligning your cv experience to the role above so it’s a no brainer for them to appoint you as opposed to an external candidate

[768]

References

Available upon request.

(They likely won't request any from the sound of it).

[bennno]

cobra kid said:

Morning all.

I've been happily in this job for the last 16 years and have been asked to apply for the role above me after the guy has retired. My issue is that my CV is still the one I used to apply for this job. I think one of the referees is now dead and the other is probably uncontactable!

The job is pretty much mine if I want it to be honest. I'm the man for the job and they want me to have it.

Would you just leave the referees off it??

Have they asked you to prepare a CV?

I’d just put ‘references available on request’.

[cobra kid]

I think it will be a case of just ticking HR boxes to be honest. I'm 49 and this job could take me a good distance towards retirement I reckon!

[WelshRich]

Bear in mind that references aren’t what they used to be… Fear of comeback means that most company references these days are purely factual (confirmation that you worked somewhere, when and how long, what your job title was) - All stuff they already know since you work there.

What has changed is that they may have a sniff around your social media so if you’ve previously slagged them off on Facebook or posted pictures of yourself on an anti-capitalism protest march you may want to sanitise the record

[TTmonkey]

Ask the guy that you currently work for if he will give you a reference for your applying for his role.

Warning. Only do this if he actually knows that he’s leaving lol.

[cobra kid]

WelshRich said:

Bear in mind that references aren’t what they used to be… Fear of comeback means that most company references these days are purely factual (confirmation that you worked somewhere, when and how long, what your job title was) - All stuff they already know since you work there.

What has changed is that they may have a sniff around your social media so if you’ve previously slagged them off on Facebook or posted pictures of yourself on an anti-capitalism protest march you may want to sanitise the record

My direct manager is a friend on Facebook so he knows what's what!