Originally Posted by
Sputnik
I'll tack on, one of the guys I contacted asked me to write up a career summary, highlight stuff I wanted highlighted. I just went through OPRs/awards, wrote out bullets. It was nothing pretty, but summed up everything I'd done in the military pretty clearly. Think it was about 3 pages, took maybe 30 minutes. Out of that he wrote a great rec.
Make it easy for whoever you are asking. It's polite, and you'll get better recs for it.
Concur. One of my friends who did a rec for me asked for my OPRs and a copy of my resume. I also gave my resume to all my other friends who wrote recs for me. One of them asked me to write the rec for him to submit due to his busy schedule.
Definitely make it as easy as possible for whoever you're asking.