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When writing a recommendation for yourself, the best thing to do is list your qualities you want highlighted. If you aren’t quite sure what qualities you want highlighted, ask yourself the following questions:

 How does this person know you?

 How long have you known each other?

 How did you work together?

 Detail a singular experience in which you exhibited a high level of leadership as it fits within his or her knowledge of you.

 What one quality of yours proved beneficial to this person? What was the result?

 Did you mentor or work alongside this person? What impact did you have on him or her?

Use the answers to these questions to craft a powerful recommendation.

When requesting a recommendation, it’s important that you request the recommendation from within LinkedIn’s interface. Whatever you do, don’t send the request for a recommendation via an outside email address. Emailing the request makes it difficult for your contact to figure out how to provide the recommendation. By sending the request from LinkedIn’s recommendation page, your contacts can easily click the link that LinkedIn provides, making it easy for them to give you a recommendation.

Here’s how to request a recommendation from within LinkedIn:

1 In the LinkedIn search bar, type the name of the person you want to recommend and click the search button.A list of profiles matching the name appears.

2 Open the profile of the person you want to recommend by clicking the search result.

3 Click the More… button located in the intro section.

4 Select Request a Recommendation.A dialog box appears, asking, “How do you know [this person]?” as shown in Figure 3-10.

5 Choose your relationship to the person.You have numerous options. Read through the list carefully and choose the relationship that most closely echoes yours. Unfortunately, there is no “other” option, so you must determine the best fit. Luckily, the other person has a chance to make changes, so if he or she doesn’t feel you used the proper relationship option, he or she can change it for you.

6 Choose your position at the time from the drop-down list.The drop-down list contains a listing of your experiences as listed on your LinkedIn profile.

7 Click the Next button.

8 Provide a personalized message to send with your recommendation request.LinkedIn provides a simple, pre-written message: “Hi, can you write me a recommendation?” As I have stated, it is best to add the recommendation for the person or at the very least, guidelines to what you want covered in the recommendation.

9 Click the Send button when you are ready to send your request.

FIGURE 3-10: LinkedIn’s recommendation request form.

Your request for a recommendation is sent as a LinkedIn message. Depending on your LinkedIn settings, you may also receive a notification alert via email.