How do i ask for letters of rec from an asswip boss? I’m at my current job for about a year now and i want to ask him for letters of rec, but he is a totaly douche that i duno if thats a wise thing to do. The grad school that i wanna apply to says that letters of rec cannot be from co-workers, so does that mean i can’t get it from my co-workers even though they have been supervising me the months that my boss was gone ( for about 6 month due to sickness)? And also if my boss is such a total ahole, does that mean i’m pretty screwed in terms of using him as a reference and letters of rec in the future?
The only person who can answer is your boss. Man up and ask him.
Well, i will do that, but another concern is that he doesn’t speak english very well, and i highly suspect his writing abilities. How should i tackle this concern?
write a letter and ask him to sign it.
yeah…ask him to sign it, and dont forget to write a script in case they do a reference check by phone…
Actually, whenever you’re expecting a letter of reference, it’s good to provide a sample note or at least a set of “talking points” to help the writer compose something. And say at the end “and anything else you think will hep,” just in case there’s something they liked about you that isn’t on the list. Is your former boss a general-jerk, or does he actually have animosity specifically toward you? Most people won’t intentionally poison a recommendation unless there is bad blood for some reason. And your other info to them will help keep them away from unintentional gaffes. If he has it in for you, then I’m not sure what to suggest, other than to hope that a year has softened his memory. As one boss I had issues with once said “Life is long, and the world is small,” which is another way of saying “let bygones be bygones.” I never got along so well with the guy, but he did have a lot of great little sayings (in retrospect, he wasn’t such a bad guy - there were just institutional reasons why we were always at opposite ends of arguments)
if your co-workers supervised you for six months, why can’t you use them as references? will schools really check to see if they were your *direct* supervisor? in a lot of workplaces, people have multiple people they report to, and some people will get along with each other better than others. i don’t see why this is a problem. i’d never ask someone for a reference if they weren’t someone i could trust to write me a good recommendation. for example, in my most recent research job, i didn’t want my boss to know i was looking around, but i was able to get other people on my team as well as personnel from legal, compliance, institutional sales, supervisory analysts, etc. to vouch for me because they’d worked with me in other capacities of the sell-side research job. bottom line is, i think there are ways you can bypass having your direct boss write a letter for you.
I have used colleagues/friends that have switched firms and are more than happy to say they were my boss! In IB, I also used my associate, because leaving the firm had clearly upset the two directors I worked beneath.
most letter of recs are written by the applicant and the recommender changes up whatever he feels is necessary and signs off on it.
Is this for MBA? Just get 2 people who are more senior than you to write the letters. Don’t lie and say they are your boss… Just write 1-2 sentences in the optional essay why you didn’t/couldn’t have your boss write the letter. No big deal. It happens all the time.
homie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is this for MBA? > > Just get 2 people who are more senior than you to > write the letters. Don’t lie and say they are your > boss… Just write 1-2 sentences in the optional > essay why you didn’t/couldn’t have your boss write > the letter. No big deal. > > It happens all the time. Can anyone comment whether this is common practice? Would be very good to know. Thanks!
haha if I had to tell my boss to write a letter of rec for MBA school for either 09’ or 10’, I’d be fired right away…
i’m applying for '10 MFE.