Throughout my career and even in school a tool that I had always thought would be valuable is the ability to get recommendations from people whether it be classmates, teachers, peers or bosses in the right moment when my interactions with them were current and vibrant in their memories or in their present.  

 

So often when we need a recommendation from someone we reach out often years later and ask them to vouch for us and for our abilities.  Our favorites remember us and will always deliver to our expectations but this does not give others a set of recommendations about us that are curated and culled over time when our "impression" on the recommendation giver is fresh and vibrant.

 

This is one of the main reasons that we created urecommendme.com.

 

The idea of urecommendme.com came to me when my oldest son was in 11th grade and getting ready to prepare for college applications.  I thought that a tool that could have captured recommendations for him both academic and activity based as he participated in activities would have been ideal.  A tool like this was also needed for the professional world.  While the tool has grown and and evolved and my son has now graduated college and is working on Wall Street the need for this type of a tool is still equally important in the professional world.  Having a portfolio of recommendations that mark the progress and evolution of your career is an invaluable asset to have.