Re: How cleaner references are checked
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Hi Anna,
One of the requirements for being a self employed cleaner with us is providing 2 written references, at least one of them has to be form a domestic cleaning job that the cleaner previously did or is doing at the moment. If the cleaner has only one reference, then it must be from a house/domestic cleaning job and long term (more than 1 or 2 years).
At the cleaner first initial interview we ask for 2 reference letters for cleaning jobs, preferable domestic cleaning. We make copies of them and we then check the references:
1- if the reference is from a company we first check the company’s registration/tax ref and address.
2- If we have the possibility of writing a letter/email to the referee we send that so we have something signed by the referee.
3- We always call the references and fill in a “telephone reference form” that we attach to the applicant’s file.
Usually it is easy to get in touch with the references, but sometimes it takes longer. We do not call the applicant for training unless the references have been checked. If the reference is not satisfactory the applicant does not pass the interview.
Hope this information helps.
Kind regards,
Amy Cleaning
One of the requirements for being a self employed cleaner with us is providing 2 written references, at least one of them has to be form a domestic cleaning job that the cleaner previously did or is doing at the moment. If the cleaner has only one reference, then it must be from a house/domestic cleaning job and long term (more than 1 or 2 years).
At the cleaner first initial interview we ask for 2 reference letters for cleaning jobs, preferable domestic cleaning. We make copies of them and we then check the references:
1- if the reference is from a company we first check the company’s registration/tax ref and address.
2- If we have the possibility of writing a letter/email to the referee we send that so we have something signed by the referee.
3- We always call the references and fill in a “telephone reference form” that we attach to the applicant’s file.
Usually it is easy to get in touch with the references, but sometimes it takes longer. We do not call the applicant for training unless the references have been checked. If the reference is not satisfactory the applicant does not pass the interview.
Hope this information helps.
Kind regards,
Amy Cleaning