Job Referencing Question:

While work-performance questions provide important insight, they do not always give a complete picture of the candidate. If you want to know what the person is like, you have to ask questions that get at that information in a different way. For instance, an employer may ask, Would you trust the reference to watch your children if you were away on vacation? or would you take the candidate to dinner at a nice restaurant with your parents/spouse/significant other? The more personal/nonwork-related questions are often useful, not for what the reference says but what the reference does not say and/or the manner in which the reference provides an answer or does not answer.