Let’s dive into 5 tips for writing a recommendation letter that can have a genuine impact on a candidate's future prospects.

“Are you serious?” my twenty-two year old client Brittany (named changed) said, and then rolled her eyes. “You’re going to make me ask people to write recommendation letters? I thought that was ...

In a crowded applicant pool, VidR cuts through the noise with authentic voices, facial cues, and nuances that written praise alone can’t convey. A letter gets read. A video gets felt. Adding voice to ...

Shortly after becoming a full professor, I asked a colleague who had held that rank for years to name the greatest challenge she had faced in this ultimate chapter of faculty life. Her instant reply: ...

Is your institution committed to an equitable hiring process? Is it also concerned about reducing unnecessary costs? What about increasing productivity without sacrificing the quality of work life? If ...

It is around this time of year, when letter-writing season is in full swing, that many professors receive numerous requests for recommendations from students and colleagues applying for graduate ...

Right now students across the country are putting together their college applications. For many students, especially those applying to private universities, having amazing college recommendation ...

Last month, a professor at Colorado University Boulder’s Center for Values and Public Policy argued that “the practice of soliciting letters of recommendation for academic positions is both foolish ...

Letters of recommendation are a common and prevalent part of academia for many students. But this might be doing more harm than good. Remote learning has made this fact brutally clear – especially ...