Tuesday’s Tip: Asking For & Writing Social Recommendations

We all know by now that receiving social media recommendations (especially for LinkedIn), is crucial to your online significance. Although I personally feel that recruiters do NOT pay as much attention to what is said about the individuals, as the "media" reports, I still would rather you have a well polished and "clean" online record.

Let's face it, when you ask for a recommendation, you are asking the person to do some work. If you want to alleviate some of the burden, and if you want the recommendation to say what you want, consider ghost writing it for them. Then, send them your written piece of work, and offer them 3 options. 1) Use it word for word (just copy, paste and submit - and you're done). 2) Modify it as you feel appropriate and then submit. 3) Totally abandon my work and start from scratch. If you write an appropriate recommendation for yourself, most people will select option 1.

If you need help ghost writing your recommendation, or you are asked to write one for someone else, consider using the following website:

http://socialrecommendator.com/

You input a few keywords and personal information and it will come up with flowery verbiage that you can use for the recommendation.