PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
REFERENCE REQUEST
REFERENCE FOR: Rhiannon McFetridge
POSITION: Nursery Trainee/Modern Apprentice
SECTION 1
How long have you known the applicant:
(years and months)
16 years 11 Months
In what capacity do you know the applicant:
Rhiannon is my sister, but I also hired her twice to help with two of
my businesses.
SECTION 2
If this person is or was employed by you, or you are or were their line manager, please complete the following
questions.
What is or was their period of employment:
(years and months)
Position one with Baking business – 3 years - 2020/2023
Position with amazon business SJ DIRECT – 1 year 5 months –
2021/2023
What is or was their job title:
Assistant for both
Please give a brief description of the applicant’s duties and
areas of responsibility:
Within the baking business her duties were to help with the
assembly of different orders as well as communicating with my
customers when I was busy with other orders. She has great
instincts and asks the perfect questions to get all the information
needed to bring the customers’ orders to life. She read up and
made herself knowledgeable with different regulations where it
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came to allergens etc and always informed the customers of these
to ensure that there were no legal issues down the line for my
business. Rhiannon was always polite and attentive when it came
to dealing with my customers and I was provided lots of feedback
and happy reviews with those customers who dealt with her
informing me that she was always friendly, caring and
approachable.
My other business was an amazon selling business where my
husband and I sold baby weaning sets. Rhiannon’s duties within
this company were to help me pick the design and logo for my
products as well as helping me research everything that was
needed for parents and their children to create the perfect product.
She helped with packing and labelling the products in a timely
fashion which saved me a lot of time and helped me get the orders
out quickly to customers. Rhiannon has a great eye for detail and
helped me look for any flaws in the received products to ensure that
no faulty items were getting sent to my customers. She always
followed my directions exactly as instructed and went over and
above most times to get me ahead of scheduled orders.
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Please tick the following boxes based on your knowledge of the applicant:
[Link] Good Average Poor [Link]
X
Attendance
X
Timekeeping
X
Honesty & Integrity
X
Relationships with Colleagues
What is or was their reason for leaving your employment?
Unfortunately, I had to close my businesses due to having to go
back to work full time.
Would you re-employ them?
Yes
Do you know of any reason why we should not employ the
applicant? If so, please give details.
N/A
SECTION 3
With reference to the attached Job Specification, please comment on the applicant’s suitability in the following areas:
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Areas of strength
As mentioned above Rhiannon has developed strengths in dealing
with customers as part of her role within my business. She is a very
hard worker and goes above and beyond the required tasks she is
given. She has a great attention to detail and follows rules to the
letter. She is very kind, compassionate, friendly and has a very
caring personality which allows her to create bonds with adults and
children alike.
Areas of improvement/development
Although Rhiannon is very capable when it comes to fulfilling tasks
that are given to her. I found that sometimes she was lacking some
confidence when it came to different tasks. She worked on this
throughout her time employed with myself and took great strides
towards building confidence in her skills but I believe that she is still
working more on this area of development.
Ability to do the job
I believe that Rhiannon will be able to fit in and do this role to the
highest standard the skills she has developed over her experience
working and going through school show that she is able to adapt
and eager to prove herself in any situation she is in. Looking over
the desired list of attributes that you would like from your staff I
believe Rhiannon will excess in most of these and those she isn’t
as confident in she will do everything in her power to learn and
grow within the role to achieve everything you are looking for.
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Special skills/competencies
As previously stated in another section Rhiannon has developed a
lot of skills through work and school such as being good at following
instructions, good at working alone or as part of a team, she follows
rules and polices she is given, she is always looking to learn more
and expand her work experience, she is polite and attentive with
both children and adults and she is very responsible, caring,
friendly and approachable which I believe would be a great fit for
working with young children and their parents/guardians.
SECTION 4
Please details the applicant’s sickness/absence record for the last 2 years:
Dates (From / To): Reason:
N/A
SECTION 5
Any other comments you would like to make about the applicant:
Something else I haven’t mentioned above but Rhiannon has had a lot of experience caring for younger children throughout her teen
years. She volunteers with a group ran through the church called formed and helps do readings for younger kids and helps them get
settled into the group. She has also been around family children doing babysitting jobs for numerous members of our family and is
always attentive and responsible when it comes to caring for the kids. I believe she will be perfect for the role and with time her
confidence in the role will shine.
Your details:
Siobhan Mitchell
Name:
Siobhan Mitchell
Signature:
Business owner
Position:
SJ DIRECT/ Bake it Beautiful
Company Name:
07528266279
Telephone No:
Siobhan_mcfetridge@[Link]
Email Address:
19/11/2024
Date:
Please return completed reference to: Carousel Nurseries Ltd
Glenfield House
69 Glasgow Road
DUMBARTON
5
G82 1RE