When a colleague or peer asks you to write them a reference letter, it can feel like both an honor and a challenge. You want ...

A new research study has found that job-seekers with previous work experience who use reference letters in their job applications stand to increase their employment prospects by more than 50%. This ...

Employment-related letters serve different purposes. A painstakingly composed letter can showcase your strengths to a potential employer, express your desire to accept a job offer or convey your ...

Letters of reference or recommendation are common devices in the corporate world. Many people request letters of reference from current or former employers, and employers may be more than happy to ...

In today's working world, there is lost treasure and a lost art, and it is called providing an excellent reference. In the old days when the internet did not exist and dinosaurs walked the earth, ...

I have gotten jobs for which I didn’t need any recommendation letters; such jobs often come by after a long time of being professionally acquainted with certain organizations and people. But back when ...

Despite how much has changed in terms of how we search for jobs (we’ve come a long way from paging through the local newspaper’s classified ads section) and the hiring process now being largely ...

This is the second of five installments of “How to Get an Academic Job,” a new guide on the tenure-track search from our Career Talk columnists. Previously the series explored what to do “Before You ...