This is the one thing holding me back at the moment from finding work.
What are you meant to do in that situation when the job applications mostly ask for your last job references?
I even went to the job place where I used to work but the manager is not there instead he has his employees there so I left a message but I’m not 100 percent confident he will get back to me.
I guess I might have no choice but to put other people as reference but many of the forms say it has to be most previous job references if you had previous job references
Unfortunately they specifically ask for the most previous employers
But only occasionally it works with other people, usually in less successful companies which are usually more difficult to work in and also usually more difficult to get references from.
It doesnt have to be your previous job, I just put the jobs I was good at which didnt include my last few jobs lol I had no problem finding jobs, I actually got 3 interviews on Indeed, I chose the one with the IQ test and worked there for 1 month before giving up eventhough it was my best and dream sz job as its extremely easy. I had to play VR video games all day and write bug reports.
One of the other jobs I cancelled the interview, it was selling Nespresso coffee machines in the mall in the official Nespresso store.
The third job was selling shoes for a popular shoes store here. It was pretty close to my house too just like the Nespresso job. Nespresso paid the most and plus it had commission on everything sold but I think its more stressful than the other two jobs.
Here in California if a prospective employer calls one of your past jobs, by law, he isn’t allowed to say anything bad about you. All he can say is that you worked there. Doesn’t answer your question but it’s interesting.
You might not need that employers permission or anything from him. Just put his name and phone number and the name of the business on the job application and if they want to call him, they’ll call him.
In England where I am, That is sometimes the case but not always that they call the reference. Unfortunately when they do and if no one responds there’s a chance I won’t get the job.
Anyway what’s worse is that I don’t even have all of the reference man’s details so have nothing to type in fields where the boxes need to be filled with a proper email.
And I can’t put older jobs down cos they want it in chronological order with most recent job first.
I don’t know not all the applications are like that so it’s not too bad.