Initials Letter of Recommendation for Employee Made Easy

E signature letter of recommendation template for coworker

welcome back to the interne queen youtube channel and in true in turn queen fashion we're gonna talk about letters of recommendation today I don't think we've done a video on that yet so it's really important that you guys always arm yourself with letters of recommendation because you never know when someone's gonna say hey I need a letter I need a letter of reference I need a letter of recommendation about you in order to hire you so you want to make sure that you always have them on hand just in case an internship coordinator or an employer asks you so my advice is to have three letters of recommendation available at all times so you want to have an academic letter so something from a professor that's been written within the past year or two you want to have a letter you want to have a character reference so something that's written by maybe a family friends someone who you've known for a long time not your mom or your dad but again I think a family friend that works in a prestigious field maybe they're a doctor maybe they're a lawyer maybe they're in marketing maybe they work at the Tourism Bureau whatever it might be get that character reference someone that can speak to your integrity your character your loyalty your work ethic and then of course you want that professional letter of recommendation from a former boss a former internship coordinator someone that's worked with you on a really professional level if you guys play any sports I think coaches of sports teams are great people to write you letters of recommendation if you're a part of any clubs on campus the PR Club a marketing Club an ADD Club a debate club the chapter advisors those are great people that can write you letters of recommendation and I think it's important that all of your letters of recommendation have been written within the past two years that way it's always something relatively current just in terms of good practice whenever you finish a school semester ask one professor whose class you did well in where you had you know a good repertoire with the professor ask the professor to write you a letter of recommendation and that way you always have something current that's on hand so again three letters of recommendation an academic letter a character reference and a professional letter so I think that's really important to keep in mind now when you leave a job or an internship how do you get that letter of recommendation because it's always on your mind but you never know how to ask for it two weeks before the end of your internship and you should all be able to pick out that date right now okay two weeks before the end of your internship that is when you go to your immediate supervisor and you say I know the internship is ending in two weeks I know you're really busy executives love it when you address how busy they are right they have a lot going on I know you're really busy my internship ends in two weeks and I would love to get a letter of recommendation from you would that be okay they're gonna say yes you guys or they're gonna say you know what let me follow up did it uh whatever it might be just tell them that you're ready to do anything you can to help and then I would say to follow up about one week later so now you're at one week until the end of your internship you're gonna follow up and say I just wanted to ask about that letter of recommendation I'd really love to get it before the end of the internship okay so you're gonna ask two weeks before the end of that internship for those letters of recommendation now let's say that you keep asking and you're just getting nothing back and your boss is just zipping around and so busy and you're like oh I might not get that letter here's where you take the advice I write about this and all work no pay my book there's my book okay but you take my advice of writing your own letter now what I mean by this isn't being sneaky and forging your boss's signature we're not doing that here but what I think you can do is that you can say I know you're really busy do you want me to put together a template then you could look over it make any changes that you want and just sign off on it would that be okay and most likely if you have a really busy boss they're actually gonna really appreciate that you're offering to do this so in this template letter it just needs to be I would say two to three paragraphs max I think two paragraphs is just fine and you just want to speak to the actual work that you did at the internship when people are reading letters of reference they want to clearly understand what did you do for that company and why were you a great intern and someone that person wants to recommend for future hiring so in your template letter of recommendation you're gonna talk about the tasks that you did as an intern and I would be specific I would name off a few specific tasks that you were responsible for right the reasons why you're so great and I know that you know what those are you know you were punctual you came on time even the things that you didn't know you were happy to learn you always were cooperative you got along with the team okay put these things in that letter and give it to your boss or your supervisor and more than likely they'll print it out on company letterhead maybe they'll make a few changes correct some spelling and they're gonna sign off on that so getting that letter of recommendation is very important a lot of jobs require it and again sometimes you don't know which employers are gonna ask for a letter of recommendation and if an employer calls you and says hey I have your job application in front of me I need a letter of recommendation and I need it tomorrow you don't want to freak out right you want to already have those letters on hand because you are a prepared job candidate because you watch the intern Queen on YouTube all right now go get those letters of recommendation and good luck wrapping up that internship