HR companies are more concerned with protocol than actually hearing about your past performance. These are mindless, bureaucratic, office jockeys. They have a checklist in front of them during the "onboarding" or hiring process that they have to check each box off, like criminal check, drug test, references, etc.
Your reference does not need to still work at that job. Shit, you could give one of your best friend's number and just have him pretend to be a former supervisor and chances are that's good enough.
Your reference does not need to still work at that job. Shit, you could give one of your best friend's number and just have him pretend to be a former supervisor and chances are that's good enough.