These reference letters remind me of the recent voting scandal in Britain. Some naive souls decided that they would let people send in their
"secret" ballots by mail. Of course, once the ballots are allowed out of the ballot box they aren't secret anymore and some wiseguys in ethnic communities organized campaigns to take control of their communities' ballots.
Likewise, a reference letter is too open to be trusted honest. And this is aside from the fact that it really doesn't say much in terms of relevant detail.
Excellent article Anthony! I appreciated your reference template and will shamelessy borrow some of your structure and phraseology.
This is a critical part of the placement process, so anything a candidate supplies herself has all the value of a note from Epstein's mother.
I confess though, for some reason, that as much as I know the value of the reference and what it means in term of moving a search forward, I find myself avoiding references and then scrambling. I see it as a time constraint, probably because I spend way more time on the call, taking copius notes (I should learn shorthand) and then typing it up to my satisfaction.
Time management issue I suppose.
I feel the same way John. I hate doing references.
I think it is because if they are good they seem like a waste of time - time that could be spent on business development.
If they are bad that immediately means you have to go back and start the search again.
And yes typing them up takes a lot of time.
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