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Who's this nerd? This is Angela Guido, the founder of Career Protocol, it's MBA Monday, and today I'm talking about Tricky recommender situations. We talk a lot about recommendations on a Monday because they're an incredibly important part of your application, but they're also the part that's hardest to manage and control because your destiny is in the hands of other people. So if you haven't already watched last season's videos, I recommend you go back and watch how to choose the best recommenders, how your recommenders can address the strengths question and how they can address the question about feedback. Like I said, we talk a lot about this subject. So there's a lot of great content on MBA Monday about recommenders. But today I'm going to talk about those marginal, strange situations where you don't have great options to recommend you because of the setup of your career. So the most common situations I see with my clients are if you work in a family business, it's a little bit hard to find recommenders because most of the people who would recommend you, typically you're related to and there's a clear conflict of interest there. Another situation in which it's hard to find great recommenders is when you work in a company where it's not really safe to disclose your MBA applications because either they'll fire you on the spot. That's really, really rare. But it has happened in the past. Or they will compromise your career trajectory if you stay at the firm, if they know that you're planning to apply to business school. And the third situation in which you might have difficulty finding great recommenders is if you're still very early in your career or you spent a lot of extra time in academia. So the people who know you as a professional best are not professionals, they're academics. So here's some strategies. The first thing you want to do is go back to previous employers. So if you're in a family business but you worked in another company before, or if you can't ask your current supervisor, but you could go back to the company that you did work at before this one, that's the best place to start. The second place to look is in client supplier and external relationships. So, for example, we had an entrepreneur who also worked in the family business use their auditor as a as a recommender, for example. You can use clients, you can use legal counsel, anyone that you've worked with in a serious professional capacity who is well-equipped to gauge your professional abilities and skills. Third option is to go to people you've worked with in the past who may not have been in a supervisory capacity, but who you trust to write a great recommendation for you. So maybe if you tell your boss you're applying to business school, it's going to cause a problem. But you have a peer who's slightly senior to...