Reference Ace › Guides › Rent a referee in NZ? Read this first
The service behind the search term, what it actually involves, and the version of it that works.
A stranger takes your prospective employer's reference call posing as your former manager. You supply the story, they supply the voice. Everything else on this site is about making that unnecessary.
Employers verify. Switchboard calls, LinkedIn cross-checks, payroll dates, and re-verification by a new HR team months later. A rented referee has no footprint at the company you claim to have worked for, and it shows within two questions.
Keep the real referee (teammate, second-level manager, client, volunteer coordinator), brief them until they are specific and confident, and rehearse the call. Same confidence on the phone, zero exposure.
Often, and usually late: the moment of discovery is after you have been hired, when the representations clause converts the lie into grounds for dismissal.
It is deception practiced on your prospective employer, potentially fraud where the job is the benefit. At minimum it is a contractual breach that can end a career years in.
The Reference Ace Sorted tier is $89, less than most rented-referee services, and every word of it is true.
Reference Ace checks real examples of your work, confirms they're yours, and vouches for them to employers by name, always as an independent reviewer and never as a former boss. Got a referee already? We brief them and run the practice check before a real employer calls.
See how it works and pricing