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Subject:RE: Letter of Recommendation From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Maggie_Secara -at- capgroup -dot- com Date:Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:39:22 -0800 (PST)
> > > I never ask for a formal letter of recommendation
> > from a company,
> >
> > Why not?
> >
> But more importantly, no one has ever asked for one since
> I was applying for college. Usually it's HR who wants
> References information
I've volunteered tgo show the letters and in a number of cases they
made photocopies to pass on internally. It's part of how I conduct
the intervieww
> > > It's not a recommendation you can use from that job
> > > to the next,
> >
> > Why not?
>
> Presumably, you gave notice because you have another job
> already. If so, you no longer need the letter of
> recommendation. At least that's how I interpreted the sentence.
My last two gigs both ended before I had a replacement gig. One
terminated the contract becaused they decided to outsource dev to
India and one I left because the agency owed me eight grand.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
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