Questions tagged [recommendation-letter]
Requesting or offering a letter of recommendation
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How do I ask my previous managing director for a recommendation she offered when I was leaving?
I recently left my job where I had been working for around 8 months. When I was leaving, I had a short meeting with the managing director where she offered to give me a letter of recommendation.
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Reccommendation letter after unsuccessful probationary period [closed]
For various professional reasons (basically we were not a fit in our ways of working) yesterady I was told I would not pass my probationary period. I was given a reccommendation letter though. Here it ...
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Is it beneficial to continue working for a professor, when I don't like the work, only for a letter of recommendation? [closed]
I am working as a research fellow to a professor in a college. This is my first time as a research fellow. I was working as a software engineer before this. I want to apply for grad schools, and to ...
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General letter of recommendation for intern?
I am a senior engineer at a large well known US company, and oversaw an intern this past summer for a comp sci related internship (programming focused). He did a great job, and I was very happy with ...
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How to ask my former employer whether he finished my reference letter or not?
I was once an intern at a company, and had good relationship with my supervisor. I recently asked him for a reference letter and he said he would write one for me, with no hesitation. However, ten ...
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What percentage of technical jobs don't require references? [closed]
A redditor writes:
I’ve hired and been hired. Never have I called references if they were provided and none of mine have ever been contacted. Not sure why people ask for them since hiring is already ...
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Is it bad to request a LinkedIn recommendation?
I had asked this question and the most upvoted answer states it's bad to ask (or even receive) recommendation letters over LinkedIn, because it shows your current employer you're looking for new work (...
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How to ask manager who just gave me an appraisal email, for a LinkedIn recommendation
I work part time for a company. My manager is in another city. We recently completed a project and he sent me an appraisal email and a generous bonus that I really wasn't expecting. In fact I'm ...
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Should I offer to or Supply an Award Nomination Form to the Nominee?
So make this short: a teammate on the ~30 person team I currently lead won a national award, and I would like to brag on them a bit. I am the one who submitted the nomination, which includes some ...
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Do I need to ask for an employment reference letter after doing a postdoc in a University?
I'm about to finish my postdoc employment and looking for a job in the industry (both in Germany). I know that a typical thing to add to the job applications for the industry is the "employment ...
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Asking for a recommendation from a former coworker, whom I would not feel comfortable to recommend back
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I have worked in the same software-development team as “Alex” (and another dozen people) for a couple years, and supervised part of their job at some point (due to “technical superiority”, as ...
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Recommending someone while being newly-hired myself
I joined a new company a few days ago and I am really enjoying it. My close friend is looking for internships and my company has applications open for internships. I think he would be a great fit. ...
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Asking for recommendation letter from my new manager when I just recently started?
So I am in a relatively awkward spot. 2 months and a half ago I joined a company.
However I only did so because I did not get accepted to grad school, which is my n1 priority in life.
The period to ...
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Dealing with a bad LinkedIn recommendation
In my career I have always received great recommendation letters from management until now. I worked at a small international company in a high level tech position. The entire tech department was ...
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Are managers allowed to send reference letters unrequested? [closed]
I work as a teacher. I left my job because of poor management, a feeling that many other teachers shared, and at least 15 others left for the same reason. While applying for another job, I requested ...
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