Recommendations that actually carry weight

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A profile with zero recommendations reads as unverified — nobody who worked with you volunteered to say anything. But a wall of “great to work with, true professional” recommendations adds nothing either. Recruiters skip those.

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What carries weight: context

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The recommendation that lands names the work: “Aidan ran the NEC4 administration on our four-site programme — his compensation-event discipline kept us out of two disputes that would have cost us seven figures.” That's evidence. It gives the recruiter a project, a method, and an outcome.

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How to get one

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1. Pick the supervisor or client who saw your hardest work. 2. Write it for them — draft the two-sentence version you'd want published (people publish what you hand them, edited lightly). 3. Offer to reciprocate with one for them, about their actual work. Two contextual recommendations — a direct supervisor and a client — move the Credibility dimension of our audit more than ten generic ones.

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Whom to skip

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Peers who'll say anything nice. Family (recruiters check surnames). Anyone who'd write “hardworking and passionate” — that's a wasted slot on your profile.

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The Credibility dimension scores your recommendations\' presence and context. Run the free audit to see what\'s missing.

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