El comité de selección revisa la referencia laboral.

Because comité is a masculine noun in Spanish, so it takes el in the singular: el comité.

This can feel odd to English speakers because the word does not end in -o, but noun gender in Spanish is not always predictable from the ending. You simply learn it as:

• el comité
• los comités

Also, comité is grammatically singular here, even though it refers to a group of people.

Because the subject is el comité, and that noun is singular.

In Spanish, the verb agrees with the grammatical subject, not with the number of people inside the group. So:

• El comité revisa... = singular
• Los miembros del comité revisan... = plural

This is similar to English The committee reviews..., although English sometimes uses plural agreement in British English. In standard Spanish, with comité, the singular verb is the normal choice.

De selección means of selection or, more naturally in English, selection / hiring-related.

So el comité de selección is:

• literally: the committee of selection
• naturally: the selection committee or the hiring committee

Spanish often uses noun + de + noun where English prefers a noun used like an adjective:

• comité de selección = selection committee
• centro de salud = health centre
• tarjeta de crédito = credit card

It has an accent because the stress falls on the last syllable: se-lec-CIÓN.

Without the accent, Spanish stress rules would make it sound different. The written accent shows the correct pronunciation.

A useful pattern:

• words ending in -n, -s, or a vowel are normally stressed on the second-to-last syllable
• if the stress is somewhere else, Spanish usually writes an accent mark

So selección needs the accent to show that the stress is on -ción.

Because referencia is a feminine noun, so it takes la:

• la referencia
• las referencias

This is a common pattern: nouns ending in -a are often feminine, though there are exceptions.

Here, la referencia laboral means the job reference / employment reference.

Laboral means work-related, employment-related, or professional in a job context.

So:

• referencia laboral = employment reference / job reference

In Spanish, adjectives usually come after the noun, unlike in English:

• referencia laboral
• carta formal
• experiencia profesional

That is why Spanish says referencia laboral, not laboral referencia.

Yes, you might hear or understand referencia de trabajo, but referencia laboral sounds more natural and standard in formal or professional Spanish.

Compare:

• referencia laboral = more professional/formal
• referencia de trabajo = understandable, but less fixed as a standard expression

In hiring or HR contexts, referencia laboral is a very natural choice.

Here revisar means to review, to check, or to examine.

So revisa could mean:

• reviews
• checks
• examines

Depending on context, it does not necessarily mean a deep, detailed analysis. It can simply mean that the committee looks over the reference as part of the process.

Revisa is the third-person singular present tense of revisar.

Its basic form is:

• yo reviso
• tú revisas
• él/ella/usted revisa

In a standalone sentence like this, the Spanish present tense can mean:

• a general fact: The committee reviews the job reference
• a routine action: The committee reviews job references
• something happening now, depending on context: The committee is reviewing the job reference

Spanish uses the simple present more broadly than English sometimes does.

In normal Spanish, you usually need the articles here:

• El comité de selección revisa la referencia laboral.

Leaving them out sounds unnatural or like a headline, note, or label.

Spanish uses articles more often than English in many contexts. In a full, ordinary sentence, el and la are expected here.

It is both:

• singular grammatically
• collective in meaning

That means the word refers to a group, but Spanish treats it as one unit for agreement:

• El comité revisa... not El comité revisan...

This is a useful thing to remember with words like grupo, equipo, familia, and comité.

Yes, it sounds natural and correct in Spain.

A speaker in Spain would understand it as something like:

• The hiring committee reviews the employment reference.

If you wanted to make the hiring context even clearer, you might also hear:

• El comité de selección revisa las referencias laborales.
• El comité de selección revisa la referencia del candidato.

But the original sentence is perfectly normal Spanish.