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Could I ask an employee of my company's client for a recommendation letter ? Will it violate any company policy?
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I will be applying to Graduate schools for Fall 2019, so far I have given my GRE and will be planning to give again, I work full time as a Team Lead at a software company and am planning to resign if I get an admit into a good school.
Now my undergrad CGPA is not very good as I had health problems and I will be probably mentioning this in my SOP.
The thing is that the company I work at has a contract with a very huge software company, lets call this company BIM (name changed) and I work for this company as a contractor but involved fully in software programming and development. The people I work with at BIM are scientists and practically the rightest kind of people to write Letters of recommendation if you want to get into a good college especially to offset the low CGPA. My work experience will probably also help with this but LOR's from scientists is a big deal.
My manager is alright with approaching them for requesting LOR's for the application process, my Project Manager is not. Apparently he believes it will create a "chaos" and probably thinks it would make the clients uneasy (the BIM people I work with might feel uneasy since I am handling a major project)
Now, I spoke to HR whether it is against company policy and waiting for her to reply. Nevertheless I am thinking of going ahead and requesting the BIM clients directly for an LOR since I dont think in anyway that it is a violation of any policy just to ask for an LOR.
What do I do ?
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I will be applying to Graduate schools for Fall 2019, so far I have given my GRE and will be planning to give again, I work full time as a Team Lead at a software company and am planning to resign if I get an admit into a good school.
Now my undergrad CGPA is not very good as I had health problems and I will be probably mentioning this in my SOP.
The thing is that the company I work at has a contract with a very huge software company, lets call this company BIM (name changed) and I work for this company as a contractor but involved fully in software programming and development. The people I work with at BIM are scientists and practically the rightest kind of people to write Letters of recommendation if you want to get into a good college especially to offset the low CGPA. My work experience will probably also help with this but LOR's from scientists is a big deal.
My manager is alright with approaching them for requesting LOR's for the application process, my Project Manager is not. Apparently he believes it will create a "chaos" and probably thinks it would make the clients uneasy (the BIM people I work with might feel uneasy since I am handling a major project)
Now, I spoke to HR whether it is against company policy and waiting for her to reply. Nevertheless I am thinking of going ahead and requesting the BIM clients directly for an LOR since I dont think in anyway that it is a violation of any policy just to ask for an LOR.
What do I do ?
company-policy clients recommendation-letter company-norms
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We can't tell you if it would violate any company policy, because we do not know the policies of the two involved companies.
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I will be applying to Graduate schools for Fall 2019, so far I have given my GRE and will be planning to give again, I work full time as a Team Lead at a software company and am planning to resign if I get an admit into a good school.
Now my undergrad CGPA is not very good as I had health problems and I will be probably mentioning this in my SOP.
The thing is that the company I work at has a contract with a very huge software company, lets call this company BIM (name changed) and I work for this company as a contractor but involved fully in software programming and development. The people I work with at BIM are scientists and practically the rightest kind of people to write Letters of recommendation if you want to get into a good college especially to offset the low CGPA. My work experience will probably also help with this but LOR's from scientists is a big deal.
My manager is alright with approaching them for requesting LOR's for the application process, my Project Manager is not. Apparently he believes it will create a "chaos" and probably thinks it would make the clients uneasy (the BIM people I work with might feel uneasy since I am handling a major project)
Now, I spoke to HR whether it is against company policy and waiting for her to reply. Nevertheless I am thinking of going ahead and requesting the BIM clients directly for an LOR since I dont think in anyway that it is a violation of any policy just to ask for an LOR.
What do I do ?
company-policy clients recommendation-letter company-norms
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I will be applying to Graduate schools for Fall 2019, so far I have given my GRE and will be planning to give again, I work full time as a Team Lead at a software company and am planning to resign if I get an admit into a good school.
Now my undergrad CGPA is not very good as I had health problems and I will be probably mentioning this in my SOP.
The thing is that the company I work at has a contract with a very huge software company, lets call this company BIM (name changed) and I work for this company as a contractor but involved fully in software programming and development. The people I work with at BIM are scientists and practically the rightest kind of people to write Letters of recommendation if you want to get into a good college especially to offset the low CGPA. My work experience will probably also help with this but LOR's from scientists is a big deal.
My manager is alright with approaching them for requesting LOR's for the application process, my Project Manager is not. Apparently he believes it will create a "chaos" and probably thinks it would make the clients uneasy (the BIM people I work with might feel uneasy since I am handling a major project)
Now, I spoke to HR whether it is against company policy and waiting for her to reply. Nevertheless I am thinking of going ahead and requesting the BIM clients directly for an LOR since I dont think in anyway that it is a violation of any policy just to ask for an LOR.
What do I do ?
company-policy clients recommendation-letter company-norms
company-policy clients recommendation-letter company-norms
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We can't tell you if it would violate any company policy, because we do not know the policies of the two involved companies.
– Philipp
19 mins ago
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We can't tell you if it would violate any company policy, because we do not know the policies of the two involved companies.
– Philipp
19 mins ago
We can't tell you if it would violate any company policy, because we do not know the policies of the two involved companies.
– Philipp
19 mins ago
We can't tell you if it would violate any company policy, because we do not know the policies of the two involved companies.
– Philipp
19 mins ago
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Wait for HR to respond.
If you go ahead with it and HR says you shouldn't have, you could get fired from your company or let go as a contractor from your client and that will basically torpedo any chances you have of getting a LOR from either.
answered 14 mins ago
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Wait for HR to respond.
If you go ahead with it and HR says you shouldn't have, you could get fired from your company or let go as a contractor from your client and that will basically torpedo any chances you have of getting a LOR from either.
answered 14 mins ago
dfundako
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Wait for HR to respond.
If you go ahead with it and HR says you shouldn't have, you could get fired from your company or let go as a contractor from your client and that will basically torpedo any chances you have of getting a LOR from either.
answered 14 mins ago
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Wait for HR to respond.
If you go ahead with it and HR says you shouldn't have, you could get fired from your company or let go as a contractor from your client and that will basically torpedo any chances you have of getting a LOR from either.
answered 14 mins ago
dfundako
4,91041635
Wait for HR to respond.
If you go ahead with it and HR says you shouldn't have, you could get fired from your company or let go as a contractor from your client and that will basically torpedo any chances you have of getting a LOR from either.
answered 14 mins ago
dfundako
4,91041635
answered 14 mins ago
dfundako
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answered 14 mins ago
dfundako
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answered 14 mins ago
dfundako
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We can't tell you if it would violate any company policy, because we do not know the policies of the two involved companies.
– Philipp
19 mins ago