aRefChex

Owned by Angelina Playter (Deactivated)
Last updated: Jan 17, 2019 by Brittanie Keyser
3 min read


About Us

Corporate Recruiting Professionals
Staffing & Placement Professionals
Consumer Reporting Professionals
Introduction Video

This tool has solely been researched by the WilsonHCG Innovation team.

Summary

aRefChex Inc. was founded to provide employers a cost effective employment verification and reference checking solution that is fast, accurate, and legally compliant.

aRefChex is developed by human resource industry experts with vast experience providing innovative software solutions to organizations around the world.

Most important to the development of our company and products is our close working partnership with the background screening industry (the world authority on reference checking).

Patent-pending Technology

aRefChex Inc’s patent-pending technology uniquely addresses thenecessity for organizations to conduct employment verification and reference checks that conform with the strict requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Included in our claims are that the aRefChex verification and reference checking system enables users instant access to 60,000+ validated-job reference survey templates; a reporting formatted to objectively present the results of references’ surveys; and a dispute-investigation method and system to verify the information provided in the reference feedback report.

Management of aRefChex

Kevin Anhalt: 20+ years in the human resource industry with extensive experience in screening applicants, pre-employment assessments, and interviewing training.

Shawn Matthews: 25+ years of software engineering experience with 10+ years delivering HR related solutions.

Advisors to aRefChex

Orlando Olivares, PhD: professor teaching Industrial Organizational Psychology with 20+ years experience implementing HR tools – including performance reviews.

​Background Screening Professionals: owners of background screening firms who have successfully processed 100,000+ traditional reference checks and who provide enhanced products to their clients.

Additional Resources

Technology Demo Notes

11.28.2017 Call Notes

Crystal Kardys & Angelina Playter

  • Competitor to SkillSurvey
  • Tool is built for RPOs and staffing firms 
  • Verifies dates of employment, job titles, salary history, re-hire eligibility
  • FCRA compliant 
  • Web-based tool 
  • 24-48 hour turnaround 
  • Patent pending:
    • Researched job titles
    • Applicant & Reference Friendly (database of applicant's info)
    • FCRA compliant 
  • Flat monthly pricing
  • Reference requests are branded for the client the recruiter is supporting. The recruiter can live in 1 dashboard, but can support separate clients.
  • Recommends moving the reference check process between the 1st & 2nd stages of interviews rather than at the end that way we could use the references as potential candidates 
  • Post reference completion: 
  • Can set it up so the reference is taken directly to our career site
  • 24 hours later - Sends a "thank you" email to the references as they complete them; can customize it to help generate sales leads and can also drive candidates to the company's career site 
  • 48 hours later can set up system to send text message to reference with career site info 
  • Mobile-enabled 
  • Pricing models: 

  • Will pull up to 26 social media accounts for individual 
  • Multiple language 
  • Ability to set up different accounts (i.e. client accounts) 
  • Shows every reference's responses rather than anonymous responses 
  • Maybe look at a pilot internally in January? 

Strengths

  • FCRA Compliance
  • Can integrate with all ATS
  • Gives visibility into each reference (not anonymous like SkillSurvey)
  • Has 65K skill set questions that can test a candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities (he believes SkillSurvey has 400 surveys) 
  • We can also create our own reference checking surveys if we would like
  • Has tools to identify if the reference is a fake reference 
  • Automatically follows up with references post reference completion
  • Can separate templates for each client/ branding/ client career sites 
  • Would be a neat tool to invest in to complete reference checks for who we hire at WHCG but also if we could incorporate it into the sales side and sell to clients as part of RPO.  

Opportunities

  • Hasn't implemented with iCIMS yet but would be interested in doing so