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Career Class
Mr. Endicott
 Knowledgeable about your work
habits, character, special skills and
potential
 Enthusiastic about you and your
career plans
 Able to give detailed and accurate
responses to questions about you
as a candidate
 Well respected in their field or in
the local community
 Generally you will be asked to
provide a minimum of three
references. Good choices are
employers and faculty who would
be able to attest to your skills and
abilities. Other possibilities are
advisors, co-workers, or individuals
with whom you've worked in
organizations or class projects.
 Get their permission
 Give them plenty of advance notice,
especially when they are writing
letters
 Make appointments with your
references to share your immediate
and long-range goals
 Send a follow-up thank you note
reiterating key points of your
discussion
 Brief them on your background and
types of jobs you are seeking
 Provide them with a resume to
highlight your specific
accomplishments
 When possible, give references
advance warning when you know
employers will be contacting them
 Keep them informed of the specific
positions you are seeking and notify
them when you accept a position
Faculty
Academic Advisors
Summer Work
Supervisors
Coaches
Internship Supervisors
Club Advisors
Anyone who has seen
you work
 Place references on a separate
sheet of paper according to the
format below using the same
paper and font style used for your
resume:
 References For (Your Name-Boldlarger font)
 Your address, phone and e-mail
(format the top of your reference
page like the top of your resume)
 Their Name
 Title
 Employer
 Business Address
 Phone Number (preferably work)
 E-mail address
 Their relationship to you
 Employers typically contact
references by phone, whereas
graduate and professional schools
usually request written letters.
 If it is a job/internship interview,
references are usually requested
after a second interview, but keep a
current list on hand at all times.
 Graduate school references must be
part of the application packet and
must be completed and submitted
prior to the application deadlines
 Graduate school references are done
in various ways but typically are
submitted via the sending school’s
letterhead and sealed OR the grad
school will send you the forms they
need completed by the reference OR
the reference must go to a website
and submit electronically.
 Graduate school references are
typically done by a faculty member
in your discipline and they take
TIME!
 Make sure it is someone who will
give you a GREAT reference not a
good one
 After leaving a job, a former
employer is free to pass along
negative information about you to
prospective employers
 Former employers who fear potential
defamation and slander law suites
have become crafty when answering
employment reference questions.
Rather than speak negatively about a
former employee, some will opt to
"No Comment" when asked critical
employment questions regarding
performance, termination, and
eligibility for rehire.
 Another common practice among
leery employers is to refuse to give
any information about an employee
other than dates of employment and
title.