Employee Reference Program is a special sort of programs to help business managers (responsible employers) and their business assistants (workers of HR department or secretaries) in keeping the excellence on performing the employee reference process which is necessary for collecting and checking some necessary facts and information before accepting (employing) some candidate for filling appropriate vacancy (these employee references are normally requested from the candidate’s former employers). 

The purpose of the employee reference program is to “host” such an employee reference sample process (as every organization may have its own way to accomplish this effort) and recording a plan into an electronic database to follow through it (recorded plan) every time when a need to resort to an employee reference process occurs.

Capabilities of such an Employee Reference program may include the following tools:

• Employee Reference sheet – this an electronic to-do list that can be shared between a performer from HR (or a company manager’s assistant who is assigned to accomplish these steps), and actually the manager who wishes to see how the progress over the employee reference sheet moves (to give some remedy instructions if process gets blocked on some step);
• Tree-like Employee Reference sample – a tree-like representation of steps and stages. It could be used when a company has an extended number of candidates to get references about. Such a tree can be structured as a list of folders dedicated to particular candidates with all associated tasks and documents attached, so that the manager can track the status and results by every person listed.

VIP Task Manager is a client-server application that can work as an employee reference program, along with carrying out dozens of other functions, as this is multipurpose task management software for employing effective time management in small & medium companies. You can do an employee reference download of this program to test it out during 30 days to know if it works for your needs.