Recommendation letters from employer

[Cnt w8 2B an MD]

Hello,
I have been waiting tables for the first 2 years of my undergraduate, because it is good pay. However it obviously is not the ideal job of a pre-med student. I have worked with the same restaurant for 2.5 years now and cannot decide if I should get my GM to write a rec letter. Would it be credible enough since it has been my place of employment for so long? or is it a waste of a rec letter?

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[Dr McSexy]

Sure why not. If he can give you a decent LOR, knows you pretty well, and sees that you generally do pretty well with customers (aka social skillz), it could be a valulable letter.

Personally, if say you were required to have 3 letters of reccommendation, but could submit more, I'd use this as 4th LOR.

 

[LizzyM]

A LOR from a supervisor or manager who employed you full-time or part-time in a service industry job is an excellent adjunct to letters from academic sources. Medicine is a service industry and it is often fast-paced and dependent on team work and accuracy. Evidence that the applicant has developed skills and demonstrates competence in those areas has got to be a plus.

 

[J ROD]

I always recommend getting a LOR from an employer when possible to show a positive work ethic.

 

[icalz]

Hello,
I have been waiting tables for the first 2 years of my undergraduate, because it is good pay. However it obviously is not the ideal job of a pre-med student. I have worked with the same restaurant for 2.5 years now and cannot decide if I should get my GM to write a rec letter. Would it be credible enough since it has been my place of employment for so long? or is it a waste of a rec letter?

I used on lor from my GM and I've received an interview invite from every in-state school that I applied to except one.....but she told me that she had no idea how to write one so she checked out a book from the public library (yeah, she really likes me 😀). Your GM may need a little briefing on what an LOR is exactly...if they have not been asked to write one before.

 

[ahmcadams]

If this is what you've been spending a large part of your pre-application years doing, it makes perfect sense to ask your supervisor for a LOR. If written well, these letters can provide an extremely valuable personal touch that stands out from many of the cookie-cutter, more formally worded course prof / PI / volunteer program director LORs, precisely because the writer is commenting more about you as a person than what they think the adcoms want to read about you as a diligent student, analytical mind, and all-around future baby-saver.

 

[Ativanigans]

If this is what you've been spending a large part of your pre-application years doing, it makes perfect sense to ask your supervisor for a LOR. If written well, these letters can provide an extremely valuable personal touch that stands out from many of the cookie-cutter, more formally worded course prof / PI / volunteer program director LORs, precisely because the writer is commenting more about you as a person than what they think the adcoms want to read about you as a diligent student, analytical mind, and all-around future baby-saver.

Hmm coincidentally, that's exactly what I am