Alternatives to Xref Reference Checking

HiveRef

HiveRef suits office managers, founders, and people and culture leads who work without a dedicated HR department.

RefNow may suit hiring teams in healthcare, recruitment, retail, and startups that need to collect and track employment references.

VerifyRef suits recruitment agencies, HR departments, and small businesses handling reference checks.

It suits employers collecting feedback from multiple past supervisors or coworkers during candidate review.

It suits recruitment agencies working in temporary, labour-hire, and construction recruitment.

Jointl

Jointl may suit teams that need to collect and evaluate evidence across hiring, staffing, tenant screening, admissions, or employee insight workflows.

It suits in-house recruitment teams, hiring managers and company administrators hiring directly.

Xref Engage suits organisations collecting recurring employee feedback across engagement, onboarding, pulse and Leadership 360 programmes.

It suits employers that want to automate reference collection, reminders and reporting.

HiPeople

It suits Talent Acquisition teams, hiring managers, and employer-branding teams running structured reference checks.

Veremark suits employers needing candidate screening across countries, with web workflows, integrations, or API access.

VITAY suits employers, HR teams, and staffing or recruitment firms that want to manage reference checks by email and SMS.

VidCruiter

VidCruiter is aimed at most mid-to-large-sized organizations and can be tailored to industries and government levels.