Case Study: APG & Co achieves faster hires and secure, data-driven reference checks with Xref

How Xref provides speed, convenience and security APG & Co

APG & Co, the Australian fashion group behind brands like Sportscraft, Saba and Jag with 300+ stores across Australia and New Zealand, faced slow, resource‑heavy and risky manual reference checks that stretched store managers and delayed hiring. To modernize hiring and reduce risk, APG & Co turned to Xref’s online reference‑checking software.

Xref implemented an automated, online referencing solution that lets APG & Co request a reference in 15 seconds and complete checks within ~24–36 hours (average turnaround ~30 hours), handling roughly 1,000 candidate references annually and with 52% completed outside traditional business hours. The Xref platform delivered faster time‑to‑hire, better data for recruitment and training decisions, improved privacy compliance and fraud detection, and removed much of the administrative burden from store managers.

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