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From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 3:24 PM
To: Al Geist; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Letter of Recommendation
> recommendation. Usually, if someone asks for a letter of
> recommendation, they're told to write it themselves and the manager
> will sign. If I want to know what you think of yourself, I'll ask.
Really? It never occured to me to have my letters of reference written by
anyone besides the person signing it....least of all written by me.
It just never occured to me.
Actually John, what I wrote was:
"All of my letters of recommendation include contact information and a
statement that the hiring authority can (contact) them for a personal
discussion of my abilities, etc. ...and yes, most of them I wrote myself,
but with the idea that the person signing it could edit it as they please.
I wrote them because, for the most part, the person signing the letter
didn't have time to do it themselves."
In virtually every case, my text was edited to include additional
accomplishments I had not thought about when I wrote the original draft.
So, while I wrote the draft letter, the final product was the result of the
signer's editing. I have to tell you though, creating a couple hundred
pages of finished technical copy is far easier than writing a letter of
recommendation for yourself for someone else to sign.
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