This time of year, faculty are often busy writing letters of recommendation for students applying to graduate school and responding to reference requests from potential employers. Considering the ...

Many advise getting letters of recommendation from members of the organization or community you seek to join: former officers ...

Here is a common scene: A supervisor agrees to write your letter of recommendation with one condition—you draft it. Shocker. We, too, were surprised the first time this happened to us. We assumed ...

Undergraduates need them for graduate-school applications; PhD students and postdocs use them to apply for fellowships and jobs; senior scientists often have to have them to apply for awards and ...

Recommendation letters are a critical piece of your application. A strong letter of recommendation (one is required in your Leeds application) can be just as important to your application as GMAT or ...