Thursday, 10 November 2016

application - Is it unusual to get an informal offer before any recommendation letters have arrived?


A person I know applied for a time-limited position (i.e. a post-doc) somewhere in western Europe. Xe gets invited for an interview. The next day, xe receives an informal e-mail, We will recommend HR to send you a formal offer.


However, we are still waiting to receive recommendation letters from your references before we can do so.


And I thought the content of recommendation letters were essential. In this case they are apparently a formality. Is this indeed very unusual, or is it more common than I think?




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