Researchers are often asked to write references or recommendation letters. Nature asked three senior scientists what they do when they can’t endorse someone.

Each recommendation letter can take up to an hour or longer to complete, some teachers have estimated. That means some teachers could spend up to 30 hours or more knocking out recommendations.

As hiring season comes upon us again, a rising tide of faculty opinion suggests that the venerable system of using recommendation letters needs to be discarded. Critics—in meetings, on Twitter, in ...

Here is a common scene: A supervisor agrees to write your letter of recommendation with one condition—you draft it. Shocker. We, too, were surprised the first time this happened to us. We ...

Beyond this, Indeed has recommendation letter templates designed for certain situations, like letters for graduates, managers, co-workers and teachers.

Reach out to past peers and managers and secure letters of recommendation that you can take to an interview.

But writing an effective and personal recommendation letter can be time-consuming, especially for academics who must juggle grant applications, manuscripts, teaching and student supervision.

[Take The Times’s 7-day money challenge.] Within days of opening the account I found myself, for the first time, more curious than alarmed by money.

Recommendation letters can make or break an application. A strong recommendation highlights your curiosity, dedication, enthusiasm and open-mindedness — all things a transcript doesn’t reflect. As ...