Hi Everyone,

My Nominating Committee is interested in knowing what is the leading practice with respect to doing reference checks on Board of Director candidates.

At what stage in the recruitment process do you ask for references?

As part of the initial application package submission, as a second step, or later?

Also, do you ask them to provide a letter from a referee? if so, from how many referees?

Or do you simply ask them to provide the name and contact information for the referee?

For our most recent round of recruitment, I asked applicants to include two reference letters as part of their package. However, Committee members wondered if that might have deterred some people from applying.

Thank you in advance for your information,

Mae-Yu