3, a t 25. A recent survey indicated that 41 percent of human resources professionals currently work for companies that have formal written policies that outside references will not be provided. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE AND PROFESSIONAL RECRUITERS, INC., FOURTH ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP SURVEY RESULTS 39 (1989). See also 114 PERSONNEL POLICIES FORUM (BNA) 16-20 (1976). This latter source indicates that most companies during the 1970's were willing to answer written requests for information on former employees.
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