Job reference: read grades from the formulations

The job reference provides information on this

• In each certificate of employment says something about your willingness to work, your ability to do so and your specialist knowledge. Your way of working, your work success, usually with examples of success, are mentioned. It will also tell about your leadership performance, your performance in general, and your behavior on the testimonial.
• Notice whether there is thank you for your work or regret for your departure, and wishes for the future are written on your testimony.
• If one of the mentioned aspects is missing from the testimonial, then this is an alarm signal, you got a smooth 5. One also speaks of an eloquent silence. Exception: If the successful examples are missing, then you do not have a 1 or 2, but not necessarily a 5.
• Formulations such as "as a rule", "indispensable prerequisites", "in general" should also be viewed negatively. It is catastrophic when people talk about efforts because they mean nothing more than that you have only tried, but have not been successful.
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Grades in the certificate

• You can recognize grade 1 by expressions such as "high level", "extensive and particularly well-founded", "extremely efficient, carefully and independently "," under the most difficult circumstances "," always successful "," complete satisfaction "and" at all times exemplary".


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• With the grade 2 you will find similar formulations only that it goes a little less into the superlatives. Instead of "extensive and well-founded" it is then a "good", instead of "complete satisfaction" it is written as "full".
• You have a grade of 3 in a work area if it is mentioned without emphasizing a particular leadership. For example "was resilient", "carried out" etc.
• In the case of grade 4, a restrictive "also" may have been used, for example "also showed leadership qualities", "also carried out work according to instructions".

Problems with job references

• You always have to look very carefully at the job reference, because the "codes" for the grades are very different. A one for the way of working would be, for example, "extremely efficient, careful and independent." While the Leadership qualifications, for example, "very good leadership qualities" and "employees always achieve very high levels of performance motivated "resp. "Delegating tasks and responsibility in a targeted manner means". A "successful delegation of work assigned to him" would, however, indicate laziness; you have passed tasks on to others that you should have done yourself.
• Because the entire area is very complex and the numerous small codes of the personnel managers are often impossible to understand you should have your certificate checked by the trade union, the Chamber of Crafts, the Chamber of Industry and Commerce or a specialist lawyer.

You are not entitled to a testimonial that gives you an A in all areas, but you are entitled to a fair assessment. First and foremost, you need to know which grades you have received.