Linkedin Recommendations

[kaiser78]

If one has done a half decent job in their role can they request a 'recommendation' from their reporting manager on the expectation that this would be accepted ?

Or does recommendations apply to have for example exceeded expectations in the role ? I can ask my last 5 previous managers for a recommendation having done a decent job in each role, which obviously they could accept or refuse/ignore.

Is there an accepted rule of thumb ?

[alreadypacked]

If one has done a half decent job in their role can they request a 'recommendation' from their reporting manager on the expectation that this would be accepted ?

Or does recommendations apply to have for example exceeded expectations in the role ? I can ask my last 5 previous managers for a recommendation having done a decent job in each role, which obviously they could accept or refuse/ignore.

Is there an accepted rule of thumb ?

If you don't ask, you don't get.

Well thats my rule anyway, I usually ask a week or so before I leave.

[Troll]

Neither a giver nor receiver be.

HTH

[d000hg]

How people choose to give recommendations is personal choice but I hope they would only do it when they would genuinely recommend you, or the whole system is pointless.

Are you already connected to them on LI? If so, simply request a recommendation electronically. Then they can decide what to do without telling you "you're crap". You can also give them a recommendation of course IF you think they're any good.

[MarillionFan]

You can ask anyone for a recommendation. As you get to review it and agree to adding it to your profile then you have nothing to lose.

[norrahe]

The recommendations are good but some people rather than asking those who have either managed them or people they have managed they seem to ask anyone and everyone they have worked with, I find it often negates the whole aspect of it.