HOW TO ASK FOR A RECOMMENDATION #2
9 tips to have a stunning recommendation
1- Give it a kick start
Even if you think that the most genuine endorsement would come naturally form your referrer, (and consequently, that you should not intervene to orientate it) you would be better not to leave your referrer facing the "blank sheet".
2- Give a piece of you
What more involving than striking the emotional chord of your referrer. You're asking for a favor and a personal feed back. Therefore, you should first give an insight of what motivates your request: explain your current objectives and why this recommendation is an important part of the jigsaw.
3- Encourage your referrer
Tell him how important he is to you and value his effort as making a big impact on your career.
4- Offer guidelines
Most professionals are to busy with their job, concerns with their private life ... and would just lack of time and imagination; not necessarily the willing!
Border it by :
- specifying her/him the time he will spend doing it
- asking for 3 different remarkable points.
Those can be:
- deed
- achievement/result
- relate a story
- quality
- trait of your personality
- strategic vision of the market
- promising personality
etc
There is no restriction! This can be something achieved in the past or a potential to realise; a professional proficiency or a personal demeanour.
5- Assert with examples
Nothing more concrete and assertive than associate with a real-life example every point.
9 tips to have a stunning recommendation
1- Give it a kick start
Even if you think that the most genuine endorsement would come naturally form your referrer, (and consequently, that you should not intervene to orientate it) you would be better not to leave your referrer facing the "blank sheet".
2- Give a piece of you
What more involving than striking the emotional chord of your referrer. You're asking for a favor and a personal feed back. Therefore, you should first give an insight of what motivates your request: explain your current objectives and why this recommendation is an important part of the jigsaw.
3- Encourage your referrer
Tell him how important he is to you and value his effort as making a big impact on your career.
4- Offer guidelines
Most professionals are to busy with their job, concerns with their private life ... and would just lack of time and imagination; not necessarily the willing!
Border it by :
- specifying her/him the time he will spend doing it
- asking for 3 different remarkable points.
Those can be:
- deed
- achievement/result
- relate a story
- quality
- trait of your personality
- strategic vision of the market
- promising personality
etc
There is no restriction! This can be something achieved in the past or a potential to realise; a professional proficiency or a personal demeanour.
5- Assert with examples
Nothing more concrete and assertive than associate with a real-life example every point.
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Author - Kevin Simonnet
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