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Contacting Past Employer/Former Lecturers for Reference

  • 27-10-2015 8:55am
    #1
    dashdoll
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 663 ✭✭✭


    Hi all

    I'm hoping for a little bit of guidance with this.

    I require two written references for a job that I've been offered.

    I was travelling for a while since I left my previous job so I would need to contact my former employer and ask for a reference if possible.

    It's over a year since I left that role. Would it be best to ask HR or my old manager? We were never on the best of terms but my work was always very good? I'm worried in case too much time has passed.

    I also need an academic one but I left college 5 years ago so not sure how to go about this either as there was over a hundred people in my course so I dont know if anyone will remember me or if it is unusual to get such requests after a lapse of time.

    Would really appreciate any pointers in the right direction or the best way to go about it!


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  • #2
    dashdoll
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 663 ✭✭✭dashdoll


    Any advice?

    Would this be better on a different forum?


  • #3
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Only one small piece of advice - have your student number handy when you contact the college (or contact the college to get it before ringing the lecturer). My dry witticisms did not linger in the memory of my dear old professor but she did do me a cracking reference (full of creative lies) upon production of the student number.


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