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How to write great Recommendation Letters for your Colleagues
And how it helps you more than them
Several times in life we experience changing our workplace. Any time it happens, we feel like we have not enough soft skills, not enough experience, not enough recommendations. It is a moment of great fragility. Writing proper recommendation letters for your (ex-)coworkers is a good way to help others. But most of all, it has a very positive effect on yourself too.
Nowadays Recommendation Letters
Nothing bad in having a real structured letter of recommendation. Even better if you are willing to write one. I believe that nowadays we have a new form of recommendation, based on working social media. LinkedIn, the most popular working social media, has three different recommendation items: endorsement, kudos, and recommendation. Surely the latter is the most impacting and the closest to the content and the usage of a traditional letter. Picture yourself digging for the kudos and reporting them alongside your CV or profile. It sounds weird. Much better recommendations appear in your profile, as an integrated part of your virtual resume.
Start from the beginning
Taking some time for it may look complicated. Nothing more difficult than doing something…
