Reference consent notice

What happens when you open the link

You do not need an account or a password to answer. You answer first, and only at the end create the account that owns your answers. Until then, everything you type is held encrypted in a pending area — if you walk away, it is never attached to anything and expires with the invite after 14 days.

The four steps

Step 1 — your relationship. You say how you know the candidate: as their manager, peer, report, or client/partner. If you worked at the same company, you give your title and dates there, which we cross-check against the candidate's dates for overlap. If you were a client or partner, you give your organization and the context.

Step 2 — each claim. For every claim the candidate wrote, you say how you know about it (worked on it with them, saw the results, heard about it, or wasn't involved), what their part was where that applies, and how accurate the claim is, from 0 to 100.

Step 3 — about the candidate (all optional). Whether you would work with them again, which claim best represents them, a free-text comment, and whether you consent to your name being shown.

Step 4 — your account. You create the account that owns your answers, with a sign-in link to your email or with Google. No password. This is also how you come back later to edit or withdraw.

What recruiters see

• Your relationship to the candidate, as stated by both sides.
• Whether your tenure dates overlap with theirs.
• How strongly your identity was verified.
• Your per-claim answers.
• Your name — only if you consented to show it AND the candidate's share link allows names. Both must be true.
• Your free comment — encrypted at rest, and only shown when the candidate's share scope allows it.

What you can undo

You can edit or withdraw your answers at any time from your account. Withdrawn answers are excluded from every reading. The candidate is notified when you change or withdraw something — that is part of keeping the system honest in both directions.

What we ask of you

Answer only from what you actually know, and only as yourself. If you were not involved in something, "wasn't involved" is a perfectly good answer — it is weighted accordingly, not held against anyone. Trading favorable answers or answering under pressure breaks the acceptable use policy.

More detail

The page for references walks through the flow in more detail (most people finish in about three minutes). How we handle your data is in the Privacy policy. Questions: [email protected].