21 Feb 09 Letters Of Recommendation – Your Recommender’s Risk
When you’re being granted a favor by someone, you feel grateful that somehow you must be important enough that someone wants to help you in your time of need and relieved that you don’t have to do it yourself. But another part of you wonders, “Will this person do a good job with this?” A recommendation letter contains the views and opinions that your recommender has about you. If the letter you write is not well done, it won’t reflect particularly well on you as a candidate – but it will reflect much worse on your recommender as a professional.
So now you ask, “How good should your letter be in order for the recommender to support it?” Your letter has to be written well enough that it supports the image your recommender has of himself as a professional. If your recommender sees himself as some top professional in the field, then it really wouldn’t matter if he writes like a child. You have to see to it that your letter is good enough to reflect this high image he set for himself.
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