When you are looking for a job, it is clear that the job you are currently working in or from which you quit, did not suit you. This automatically entails not very good relations with the employer. After all, your departure, at best, will be perceived as a reproach for the fact that it did not provide you with tolerable working conditions. But the question of whether you have recommendations from a former employer or colleagues may well arise during an interview, where you will find yourself as an applicant for a vacant position.
Instructions
Step 1
Whatever the recommendation, positive or negative, the question of its objectivity remains on the conscience of the recommender. Realizing this, many HR employees do not always insist that recommendations from the management of your former company be attached to the package of documents that you submit to confirm your eligibility for this vacancy. But you can ask someone from your former colleagues, partners or authoritative specialists with whom you contacted at work to write a review of your professionalism.
Step 2
Even if you are sure that references will not be required for a given vacancy, you still need to make sure that you have them. Call those professionals who can give them. Two or three people are enough, but their positions, the names of the enterprises where they work must be significant and well-known. Get them to agree in principle to positively characterize you.
Step 3
It's good if they volunteer to write the text of the recommendation themselves, but most likely you will have to do it yourself. Write it in the third person and reflect in it the facts that really took place in your relationship, you do not need to invent anything. Send these text templates to those who have agreed to recommend you. If necessary, they will make their own adjustments. Ask them to print the recommendations and sign with their regalia and contact numbers.
Step 4
If you do not have written recommendations, be prepared for the fact that you may be asked to indicate the contacts of those specialists who can assess your professional level and skills. For a personnel officer, your attitude to such a request can be an indicator. Should not be fidgety or stewed. Prepare a list of such contacts in advance. Of course, talk to these people beforehand and ask for permission to give their phone numbers as referrals.
