Writing a letter of recommendation for a friend can feel like an honor and a responsibility. It’s an opportunity to support someone you care about while helping them advance in their career, education ...

Confirm you’re comfortable writing it. Politely declining is perfectly OK if you don’t feel you can write a strong or meaningful recommendation. It’s better to be honest than to provide a lukewarm ...

Here is a common scene: A supervisor agrees to write your letter of recommendation with one condition—you draft it. Shocker. We, too, were surprised the first time this happened to us. We assumed ...

Personal recommendations are an important request and require special attention to make them suitable. If you’ve been asked to write a personal letter of recommendation for a friend, you may have ...

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Before entering your dream job or getting into the school you’ve always wished for, you may be asked to provide a (or a few) letters of recommendation. A letter of recommendation (LOR) is a way for ...

One of the most important elements of a college application is a letter of recommendation from an educator. Because college admissions offices take this part of the application seriously, it’s ...

Do you feel like you spend too much time working on your letters of recommendation? Do you want to know how to write letters that are really going to make a difference in your students' applications?

On Thursday, Nov. 21, the University of Connecticut hosted an online event dedicated to teaching undergraduate students how to ask for and organize letters of recommendation. The event, which took ...

Knowing how to write a letter of recommendation is a vital skill to have for just about anyone. You never know when you may be called upon to write one, especially if you are an employer or professor.