It’s October and the requests are starting to pile up. They’re multiplying so fast they feel like an anvil-weight of duty perpetually hanging over your head. They refuse to dissipate as the semester ...

Writing letters of reference for your employees is an important part of the employee separation process when a company closes. A company shutdown is a difficult situation for everyone involved, but a ...

Question: In my department, we are finding that the largest problem in evaluating candidates for new appointments, promotion, or tenure is in their letters of reference, which often fail to address ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Writing reference letters for students and postdocs is part of my job responsibilities as an ...

I approached a company that was the chief vendor for a software implementation I was the PM for at my last job, to ask if they would give me a reference for my work in dealing with them.<BR><BR>I had ...

Researchers are often asked to write references or recommendation letters. Nature asked three senior scientists what they do when they can’t endorse someone. I’m a neuroscientist in the United States.

You wouldn’t immediately associate university counsellors with creative writing. Famous authors of fiction who were also university counsellors? No names spring to mind immediately. Yet when it comes ...

I HAVE been asked to write references for many people throughout the years, and it is always a joy when someone makes a hilarious comment like: “This reference will not only get me the job, but also a ...