Job reference for a managing director

What you need:

• qualified job reference

A good certificate of employment is by no means a guarantee, a new one as soon as possible Workplace to find. A bad job reference, however, prevents you in advance from going to the job interview be invited.

As a managing director, you are not considered an employee

• As a managing director you are not an employee under labor law. You are an executive.
• You are employed by society. Your employment relationship thus established obliges you to put your full work force in the service of the company and can be terminated without further notice.
• Since a future employer wants to know what you've done before, the case law of the the same entitlement to a job reference is granted, as is common practice for every employee in Section 630 of the German Civil Code (BGB) is. Accordingly, the law only speaks of the termination of an employment relationship and not of the person of an employee.
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• At your request, the job reference as managing director must also refer to your performance and leadership in the service. Above all, an assessment of your leadership qualifications is recommended. This describes your social skills.


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There is a lot between the lines of a job reference

• Common formulas are, for example: "He had to instruct several employees and was able to handle this task (fully / excellently). Or: "He has a natural authority, was because of his authority and his (pronounced) sense of justice respected by his co-workers and subordinates... / He understood his co-workers well (excellent) too motivate.
• A derogatory qualification would look like this, for example: "He was able to monitor and manage the workshop operations both commercially and technically. Because of his basic vocational training, the problems of technical management are closer to him. "
• An assessment of your competence in strategic and entrepreneurial matters is essential. If a statement is missing, the suspicion is that you have acted in a less innovative way and without an entrepreneurial perspective.
• It is also interesting for a new employer to know why you gave up your managing director position. Your job reference should therefore contain a statement about this. Failure to do so suggests that you have been fired.
• Keep in mind that a missing statement on a certain point can have a bigger impact than what is in your job reference. Either there is nothing to report in your favor on this point or your previous employer has covered the cloak of silence about certain circumstances.

The more personal, the more qualified the rating

• Personal evaluations qualify your job reference. The higher up the person is in the company, the more valuable the statement.
• Standardized phrases show the indifference of your employer.
• The scope of the certificate is also meaningful. A short text shows that there is not much that is worthy of praise to report about you. If the text is excessively long, the suspicion is that you wrote the job reference as the managing director yourself and that you didn't stop for all the adulation.
• Your job reference as a managing director must be signed by a senior member of the company. In the case of a partnership, this can be the owner or, in the case of a corporation, the partner. However, a second managing director can also sign your job reference, but must then indicate this in detail in the certificate.