J3 job references

If you have seen my other posts, I was laid off from J2 about a month ago for being remote and they wanted as many staff in home office as possible.

I just landed a new J2 as contract to hire but contract is only through October and funding isn’t approved yet to go full time.

I still have some interviews pending so I am going to let those play out and see what happens.

For me this round was easy, I put J1 end date as J2 start date and I had a good explanation for J2 laying me off. I also have two glowing references from colleagues at J2.

But it got me thinking, how to people handle references when your J1 and J2 are both current. I can ride my previous J2 references for a few months but sooner or later, it might be hard to use J2 as a reference when I hadn’t worked there for 6+ months.

Ive had four interviews so far and 2 of the 4 wanted references.