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 ...

Q: My friend got her bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in social work. She then got a degree as a counselor/social worker. People can get degrees in almost anything if they are ...

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 ...

Reference letters come in many different shapes and forms, so don’t think that one size fits all. I’ve written in the past about how to request reference letters in different situations, be it from ...

When a colleague or peer asks you to write them a reference letter, it can feel like both an honor and a challenge. You want ...

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 ...

Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your human resources questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR ...

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Huculak said using ChatGPT can help academics break the cycle of recycling old reference letters. An academic at the University of Victoria in Canada used ChatGPT to help write a reference letter for ...

Persuading a colleague to write a reference letter in your behalf shouldn't be left to chance. But I wonder if Jodi Glickman Brown's advice on a recent HBR.org post goes too far towards orchestrating ...