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Subject:Re: Letters of Recommendation From:Dan Roberts <DRoberts -at- ISOGON -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:07:53 -0400
OTOH, the place of employment might not provide letters of
recommendation. I've worked at one major software firm that had a policy
of not writing letters that stated any more than "this person worked
here". So, for the 7 years that I worked as a consultant or supplemental
employee to this software firm, I could ask no one with whom I directly
worked to write me a letter.
of course, we got around this. In their letters, the writers made sure
that they were stating personal opinion as a co-worker, not as an
official representative of the firm. They were much more like a personal
letter of recommendation, than a letter from the job.
Dan Roberts
droberts -at- isogon -dot- com
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From: Robert Plamondon [mailto:robert -at- PLAMONDON -dot- COM]
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 1998 10:02 AM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Re: Letters of Recommendation
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Many people
can't get anyone
to write one for them, because no one likes them well enough to go to
the
trouble. This
serves as a screen. (It's a flawed screen, though -- a person you'd
love to
work with may
have had bad luck and been employed only in places where she wasn't
appreciated.)
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