Letter of recommendation from someone no longer in my organization

Question

Hi Gmatclubians!
When I joined my organizations as a fresher, I had a senior who kind of trained me for a while and then we worked together on the same project but, he used to help me a lot with work during the first year of my job.
He has now switched jobs and is in another organization. Can I get a letter of recommendation from him? He was not my reporting manager but my manager used to take inputs from him regarding my work performance. We both had the same reporting manager.

MBADecoder · Answer

How long have you been working Amogh? Is there no recent supervisor who can write a recommendation for you? If you have 3-4 years of work experience, I would rather like to hear more recent things about you than what you did in your first year when you were still young and getting used to the corporate life.

Amoghzz · Answer

Hi Namita,

I have a total of 3 years work experience and during these 3 years I have worked in 3 different accounts. From my current account I have my direct reporting manager who will provide me with a LOR but, for my previous account I had two reporting managers for a short period of time(both for a couple of months) and both have left the organization since and I am not in touch with them any more. So that`s why for the second LOR, I am looking for a LOR from someone from my first account.

MBADecoder · Answer

Understand the situation now. Yes you should reach out to the guy you mentioned in your first post. Although if this guy sounds like your peer in the recommendation, then that would not help for sure. I hope he is able to answer the recommendation questions with maturity.

ARINGO · Answer

In general, schools are looking for recommenders who know the candidate very well, on the basis of an experience that is:
1) As long as possible.
2) As intense as possible.
3) Experience that is preferably work-related.

The level of excitement that the recommender demonstrates, and the reasons for this excitement (supporting examples), are most important. If this someone can provide a great recommendation for you, you should probably ask him. You can explain his status and the fact he is no longer in your organization in the optional essay.

You can find more MBA LOR tips here: https://www.aringo.com/mba-recommendati ... r-process/
and here: https://www.aringo.com/hacking-the-mba- ... plication/

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