RE: Letter of Recommendation

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

And what never occured to me is that a manager would submit a letter
of reference that they didn't write. Writing is different than
embellishing or editing.

> Actually John, what I wrote was:
> 
> "All of my letters of recommendation include contact information
> and a
> statement that the hiring authority can  (contact) them for a
> personal
> discussion of my abilities, etc. ...and yes, most of them I wrote
> myself,
> but with the idea that the person signing it could edit it as they
> please.
> I wrote them because, for the most part, the person signing the
> letter
> didn't have time to do it themselves."
> 
> In virtually every case, my text was edited to include additional
> accomplishments I had not thought about when I wrote the original
> draft.
> So, while I wrote the draft letter, the final product was the
> result of the
> signer's editing.  I have to tell you though, creating a couple
> hundred
> pages of finished technical copy is far easier than writing a
> letter of
> recommendation for yourself for someone else to sign.
> 
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