When you recommend a person on LinkedIn, you indicate to the people in your network that you have done business with with her in the past-or have associated with her in some other capacity-and that ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Wired magazine’s “spiritual advice columnist,” Meghan O’Ghieblyn, ...

Employee of the year is an achievement that can boost an employee's recognition within a company and an effective way of showing that a company pays attention to those employees who go above and ...

Writing a LinkedIn recommendation comes with a certain amount of pressure. Your coworker may be relying on you to help them get a new job, and because LinkedIn recommendations are public, what you ...

If you’re active in the workforce then you don’t operate in isolation: you’ll have undoubtedly gained advantages from colleagues, bosses and mentors in the past, and you can pay that forward for ...

I'm job-hunting right now along with about 20 of my former coworkers. We all lost our jobs at the same time. We are all writing LinkedIn recommendations for each other but some of these ...

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 ...

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T he letter of recommendation has outlived its usefulness and is now more trouble than it’s worth. It’s a failed genre. Let’s get rid of it. Like many of my readers, I have served on both ...