Recommenders Official E-Mail Id or Personal??

[Tictic]

Hi....

My former organization has too many hang-up about recommending former employees.They have a long and tedious channel of content checking and approvals before they post a recommendation.I have to meet most of my deadlines within a week.Can my boss just upload it from his personal e-mail id without the official letter head?

Thank you

[MsDarjeeling]

Well sure your boss could do that, but consider how it would look.  Anybody could write a letter on ordinary paper and/or use their personal contact information.  I think something like that would raise questions of legitimacy which you really don't have time for if your apps are due in a week.  The only circumstance I can imagine that being appropriate is if your boss no longer worked for  company x, but was writing you a letter anyhow.  Then he'd use his personal stationary and contact information and explain in the letter that he is now at company y, but at the time of your employment at company x he was your supervisor.

 

If your boss is willing to do the letter for you and he knows what hoops company x requires, is there anyway he can expedite the process?  I'm guessing this wouldn't be the first time someone needed a letter on short notice so perhaps a work around is possible.

[TakeruK]

It's also possible that with electronic LOR submission, letterheads may not even be used. The LOR writer may just be asked to copy and paste into a text box without formatting.

 

In this case, I think I would ask the boss what he/she would prefer to do.