Letters of recommendation are a standard part of many employment and educational applications. Applicants naturally choose people to write letters of recommendation who are likely to give them a good ...

When you recommend a person on LinkedIn, you indicate to the people in your network that you have done business with with her in the past-or have associated with her in some other capacity-and that ...

“Are you serious?” my twenty-two year old client Brittany (named changed) said, and then rolled her eyes. “You’re going to make me ask people to write recommendation letters? I thought that was ...

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 ...

LinkedIn has a lot of great features, but overall the site suffers from a fairly mechanical feeling. There isn't a lot of human warmth on LinkedIn, notwithstanding the fact that LinkedIn has over 300 ...

Writing a LinkedIn recommendation comes with a certain amount of pressure. Your coworker may be relying on you to help them get a new job, and because LinkedIn recommendations are public, what you ...