Free Letter of Recommendation
Use our template to recommend someone for school, work, or more.
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Add your name, job title, and relationship to the applicant.
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Include achievements, strengths, and reasons you recommend them.
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Every recommendation we generate is specific, warm, and grounded in real examples.
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Recommendations from any relationship
Whether you are writing as a manager, a professor, or a coach, the tone matches the relationship.
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Thousands of managers, professors, and mentors have used CareerZoom to write a letter that genuinely helps their candidate.
"I get asked for recommendations constantly. CareerZoom helped me write something specific instead of recycling the same paragraph. My student got into her top choice."
"As a manager I always struggled to put my appreciation for my team into words. CareerZoom asked the right questions and the result actually sounded like me."
"My mentee asked for a letter on short notice. CareerZoom let me put together something thoughtful in under 10 minutes that did not feel rushed at all."
"I wrote a recommendation for a scholarship. The tone was warm and specific without being over the top. The committee told her it was a stand-out letter."
"Used this when one of my volunteers applied to law school. The letter highlighted the leadership work she did with us in a way I never could have written alone."
"My intern was applying for a full-time role and I wanted to do right by her. CareerZoom drafted something honest, warm, and specific. She got the offer."
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