References
If I am your personal tutor, you are welcome to ask me to write confidential
references for you, for employment after graduation or postgraduate study.
There are a few points to note:
- Normally, an organization will ask you to provide them with my contact details.
These are here.
- Sometimes you may need to provide me with printed papers which I then forward
on to the organization. It is always best to arrange to give me these in person.
- Please always let me know that organization X is likely to contact me
asking for a reference. This is particularly important over the summer when I
may be away from Sheffield.
- If I am on leave (for example, in autumn 2011) contact your replacement
tutor first. He or she will be able to contact me.
- In general I am not willing to provide open references.
Remember: once you have graduated from Sheffield, I can no longer contact you on your
sheffield.ac.uk address. Please send me the email address you will be using after
graduation so that I can still contact you about references.
September 27, 2011