It’s October and the requests are starting to pile up. They’re multiplying so fast they feel like an anvil-weight of duty perpetually hanging over your head. They refuse to dissipate as the semester ...

A compelling reference letter can be a decisive factor in the hiring process. The value of a strong recommendation cannot be overstated in today’s competitive job market. I’ve seen how a well-crafted ...

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 ...

If you’re active in the workforce then you don’t operate in isolation: you’ll have undoubtedly gained advantages from colleagues, bosses and mentors in the past, and you can pay that forward for ...

Writing letters of reference for your employees is an important part of the employee separation process when a company closes. A company shutdown is a difficult situation for everyone involved, but a ...

You wouldn’t immediately associate university counsellors with creative writing. Famous authors of fiction who were also university counsellors? No names spring to mind immediately. Yet when it comes ...

An academic at the University of Victoria in Canada used ChatGPT to help write a reference letter for a student — and the payoff was big, as was first reported by The Atlantic reported. Matt Huculak, ...

It is important that the referee selected to provide the scholarship reference has detailed knowledge of the candidate; preferably a current teacher or supervisor. Ideally the reference should be ...