Employers rarely ask for letters of recommendation these days, but they do look at things like LinkedIn recommendations ... your recommenders can help them write better assessments of your skills.

Writing a good letter of recommendation requires an intimate and detailed knowledge of the person. Who better to write this than you? Much of the literature teaches others to write about you.

Have a question? Submit it here. Question: I’m preparing to write a letter of recommendation, but I haven’t written one before. What’s a good approach? – Cole Answer: Great question ...

One recommendation ... The LinkedIn website provides specific examples, but even when I used barely-tweaked versions of those, it still didn't cooperate most of the time. You must write at least ...