Timeline for Writing a recommendation letter for a senior colleague
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| Jan 11, 2018 at 16:08 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/951485862038134785 | ||
| Jan 11, 2018 at 1:04 | answer | added | Nicole Hamilton | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 11, 2018 at 0:51 | comment | added | Thomas Steinke | I believe it is common (at least in computer science) for senior (i.e. tenured) people to get a recommendation from one of their students or some they mentored. The purpose is to show that they are a good advisor. | |
| Jan 11, 2018 at 0:26 | comment | added | enfascination | @FrankFYC, yeah, I can definitely do that. Is that all I'm good for? Is there anything of importance to committees, outside of personality and character, that I can assert with more credibility than the typical senior writer of this kind of letter? And if not, should I restrict my letter to those subjects, or own my situation and try to speak with authority on the same things the seniors are going to be writing about? | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 23:19 | comment | added | Bluebird | Can you talk about your colleague's demeanor towards juniors and students? | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 22:18 | comment | added | enfascination | I'll get there, but first I'd like to know what is the standard, if there even is one. I honestly have no idea how conventional or unconventional it is to get letters from junior colleagues in general, or what role they serve. Their feedback will be most informative relative to what's normal. Also, we're in slightly different disciplines: that person is in psych, so I figured I get from this forum a sense of the variance across disciplines. | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 21:52 | comment | added | nabla | Any reason you have not asked this person what they would like you to emphasize in this recommendation letter? | |
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| Jan 10, 2018 at 21:36 | history | asked | ProfNegidius | CC BY-SA 3.0 |