Recommendations

Admission committee pays serious attention to the recommendation letters you present them with. It’s very important to make the right person recommend you.

Process:
While you fill your application online, on one webpage you will need to give details of your recommender. A request from university is sent to your recommender for evaluating you. The evaluation is a set of ratings and/or a set of questionnaire. Your evaluator needs to complete the evaluation and submit it online to the university.

Who should recommend:
While the university gives you a wide range of recommenders to choose from, only few of them have the capacity to judiciously recommend you. People often believe that the recommender should be very high official in the company. That’s absolutely incorrect! Think: you are a project engineer in your company and are getting recommendation from the CEO of your company, a guy sitting seven ladders above you. How much does he know about you? Such applications are generally rejected and the candidates never realize the actual reason for their rejection.
Universities generally ask for two recommenders and very few ask for three. The best people to recommend you are:

• Your immediate supervisor in current company. Even if he is just an Assistant Manager, always get one recommendation from him. If you due to some reason, you can not make him recommend you, go for someone who is as good as a reporting supervisor to you.
  
• Your immediate supervisor in previous company.
  
• A client you did a project for.
  
• An official who trained you during your inception in the company.
  
• An HR professional who is associated closely.
  

If nothing works out,

• A peer or sub-ordinate.
  
• A faculty from college.
  

While peers/sub-ordinates are not the best people to recommend you because they are not in a position to critically examine your performance, professors from college are not the best people again because they were associated long ago. Moreover, remember that MBA is not an academic course. It’s a professional course and it is in your best interest to get professional recommendations.