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I'm having problems when filling out online application forms that they ask for 2 references but I only have one (my only previous employer), who else can I use for a reference?

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  • hemophobic
    hemophobic Posts: 739 Forumite
    Also all my college teachers have left the college so I can't ask them
  • DevCoder
    DevCoder Posts: 3,362 Forumite
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    Local influential people (councillors, politicians, judges etc) are good bets.

    Even people you know in professions such as doctors, religion etc.

    Basically people who can vouch for your character.
  • Yorkie1
    Yorkie1 Posts: 12,670 Forumite
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    Family friends who have a respectable profession?
  • 1940sGal
    1940sGal Posts: 2,393 Forumite
    I have used family friends in the past. So long as it's not family and is someone who knows you well enough to vouch for you.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    I'll be stuck too when I start applying, because I've not had an employer for some years and everywhere I've worked has closed down/been taken over/moved, everybody's left/retired/untraceable.

    And I don't know anybody influential and have no family friends, or friends.

    It's a bugg4h really.
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