Query regarding Letter of Recommendation

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Hi everyone,
Is it alright to get Letter of Recommendation from 3 people from the same organization?

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I think its best not to, they could be mistaken for colleagues and not experts

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Thanks @nwachukwu_chibuike,

2 people from the same company should be fine?

They have around 15+ years as CEO and CTO,

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I guess so, just make sure they have publicly verifiable profiles, so no assessor would think otherwise.

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One more question, I had received the Tech guru award by my organization in 2017, I have a certificate and award can I add that in the pdf for award for excellence?

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The guide says it only considers recognitions within the 5yr gap, that’s from 2018 upwards. Also, recognition from within your company may not be considered as exceptional

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I hae seen someone whose application got rejected because of this.

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Thanks @Francisca_Chiedu & @nwachukwu_chibuike

I have a query if the LOR can be digitally signed or does it need to be signed by a physical pen?

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A letterheaded LOR with a digital signature should suffice, from my experience though

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Most people sign digitally

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can you elaborate on this please? How do they sign this digitally

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Most people already have their digital signature saved as an image. They simply copy and paste it in a word document.

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Hey @Francisca_Chiedu, would both the below cases be also counted as valid:

  1. Recommender copy-pasting the image of the signature into the doc + sharing the doc with me? (note that this doesn’t contain a “log file to prove the recommender + applicant are in different IP addresses”)

  2. Recommender physically signing the doc (with ink) + sending scanned copy to me?

Thank you for your help!

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For digital signatures I would advise using a digital signing service like docusign as explained in the guide. Shame to fail on technicalities.

Physical signature + scan are accepted