Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

Reference letters come in many different shapes and forms, so don’t think that one size fits all. I’ve written in the past about how to request reference letters in different situations, be it from ...

Q. When it comes to checking references, is it even worth the effort? A. Reference checking done correctly can be very powerful. Most reference checking is a box-checking exercise. A list of standard ...