The HR Digest

5 Tips for Writing an Impactful Recommendation Letter For an Employee

Let’s dive into 5 tips for writing a recommendation letter that can have a genuine impact on a candidate's future prospects.
Inside Higher Ed

On Writing and Decoding Recommendation Letters

It is around this time of year, when letter-writing season is in full swing, that many professors receive numerous requests for recommendations from students and colleagues applying for graduate ...
Miami Herald

How Important Are Letters of Recommendation?

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Education Week

Knock Out Those Letters of Recommendation: Pro Tips From Teachers

It’s college application season, which is notoriously hectic for both high school seniors and their teachers. While it’s the students who juggle college applications, teachers have a big role to play, ...
Psychology Today

Are Letters of Recommendation Worth the Effort?

This time of year, faculty are often busy writing letters of recommendation for students applying to graduate school and responding to reference requests from potential employers. Considering the ...
Inside Higher Ed

Making Recommendation Letters Even More Meaningless

I am asked to write several letters of recommendation each semester, usually by students who have taken one of my classes or have been part of my summer service program. Truthfully, I dread writing ...

Ask Us Anything: What If the Teacher’s Letter of Recommendation Isn’t Good?

C.K. asks: My daughter’s English teacher kindly shared her letter of recommendation with her ahead of sending it to the ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Is It Time to Eliminate Recommendation Letters? (Hint: Yes)

Is your institution committed to an equitable hiring process? Is it also concerned about reducing unnecessary costs? What about increasing productivity without sacrificing the quality of work life? If ...
Town & Country

Will a Letter of Recommendation From a Famous Person Help You Get into a Top School?

Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that in 2014 Tucker and Susie Carlson allegedly asked their then-neighbor Hunter Biden to write a letter of recommendation for their son, who was ...
Daily Bruin

Opinion: Letters of recommendation add burden for students, do more harm than good

Letters of recommendation are a common and prevalent part of academia for many students. But this might be doing more harm than good. Remote learning has made this fact brutally clear – especially ...
Baylor College of Medicine

Presidential Award Letters of Recommendation

The nominators, with input from candidates, will submit to the administrative coordinator for the Robertson Award names of individuals whom they would like to write letters of recommendation on behalf ...