ContractorReference

Thoughtfully designed to help interim workers and contractors easily manage their references

Because the best way to sell your services is through your references — where previous clients can tell prospective clients how good you are at doing what you do.

How it works

With Contractor Reference you can:

Register

Sign up and either input your assignment history yourself, or email us your CV or your Linkedin profile and we will do it for you at no extra cost within 3 working days.

Upload references

Upload existing references and attach them to the relevant assignment on your profile.

Request references

Request references from your current and previous line managers. Completed references will be uploaded to your profile.

Share one, some or all of your references with recruitment agencies or prospective clients.

Reasons to register

Reduce referee fatigue

Using Contractor Reference assures your referee that they only have to write one reference, ever. This will increase the quality of your reference.

End of assignment reminders

Contractor Reference will remind you to request a reference from your line manager as you approach the end of an assignment, or it can automatically send a reference request to your line manager when you are in the final stages of an assignment.

Easily locate past references

No longer will you have to chase previous line managers for references on assignments you completed a long time ago, nor do you have to chase agencies that may hold some references of you but are reluctant to share them with you or another agency.

Everything in one place

Allows you to manage your own references in a single website, and it makes it easy to collate and control your references on an ongoing basis.

Pricing & referral scheme

FREE trial

£4.99 per month

Once the 1 month trial period is over, the cost is £4.99 per month. You can easily manage your subscription online in your account area.

Refer a friend!

If you refer a friend and they use Contractor Reference past the trial period, you can choose to have either a month’s free subscription, or donate that amount to one of our chosen charities.*

No commitments

We offer a fully transparent service. You can cancel your subscription anytime you like, online and hassle-free.*

*Terms & conditions apply. Please read these for more details about subscriptions and our referral scheme. Read terms & conditions.

About us

Contractor Reference has been created by veterans of the interim recruitment industry, who have long believed that the collation, management and sharing of references in contracting markets is inefficient for all stakeholders.

Contractors rarely collate and manage their own referencing, preferring to leave it to agencies or only chasing them from previous clients when prospective clients want sight of them. Agencies in turn rarely share references with competitors, believing them to be their own intellectual property. This can mean references for an experienced contractor can be widely dispersed between agencies or in local files of previous clients, or for some assignments the reference may never have taken at all, and the passage of time means the referee has moved on or is unable to provide a reference with the same accuracy. Additionally referees suffer reference fatigue, receiving multiple requests for the same candidate from a number of agencies and prospective clients.

Contractor Reference aims to solve all of these problems by allowing the contractor to manage the collation of all of their references, and share them with prospective clients and recruitment agencies to secure new assignments

Referees who respond to reference requests via Contractor Reference need to only ever write one reference, ever. They can keep a copy of that reference and share with any recruitment agency or prospective client that contacts them in future. This will ensure reference collation and sharing will be more efficient for candidates and clients, allowing candidates to secure the assignments they want and allowing organisations to make better informed hiring decisions.

Tel: 0800 206 2692

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