Request a recommendation

Request a recommendation in LinkedIn — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick.

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Improve — make it easier to accept

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Before I ask Priya in procurement to write a recommendation, make it easy for her to say yes. Put…
Before I ask Priya in procurement to write a recommendation, make it easy for her to say yes. Put the outcome first — ‘helped us raise activation 15% and reduced support tickets 30%’ — then give one short anecdote she can use, and two ready-to-paste sentence options: a concise one for a quick post and a fuller one that names the project and timelines.

Become — change the pattern

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Across hiring cycles I ask five former managers for recommendations and usually get one solid, two…

I ask for recommendations but most never appear or arrive late and vague.

Across hiring cycles I ask five former managers for recommendations and usually get one solid, two generic, and two no-shows, which hurts my application timelines. I keep assuming they’ll respond without making it easy. What habit should I change so requests convert to posted recommendations on time and with useful detail?

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