Writing Recommendations Early

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As I mentioned recently, I’m leaving my job at Open Earth Foundation to focus full time on the Social Web at SWF. One of the steps that I took before I left was writing out LinkedIn recommendations for everyone in my tech department at OEF, and many of my peers and others in the organisation. Too often, I’ve been asked for recommendations by former colleagues months or years after working with someone, and the intervening time makes it hard to remember their achievements and strengths. By writing the recommendations now, while my team’s work is still fresh in my mind, I hope I can provide more concrete and focused descriptions of their work style and skills. At the very least, if they ask for more detailed references or recommendations in the future, I’ll have public notes that I can use as a cheat sheet during reference check calls.

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Published by Evan Prodromou

Research Director at Social Web Foundation. Past founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. CTO of Breather, TRU LUV and MTTR. Co-creator of GNU Social, creator of pump.io. Co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of ActivityStreams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. In Montreal, from San Francisco. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian. Husband, father, cook, gardener.

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2 thoughts on “Writing Recommendations Early”

  1. @evanprodromou

    This is a great idea. I am leaving my job at the start of the year and might do this as well.

    PS – good luck with your transition!

  2. @evanprodromou
    Best of luck in your new chapter Evan!
    Having you work full time at the SWF is awesome!

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