REFERENCE LETTER

Thank you for serving as a referee. Your input will provide valuable information in helping the Vlerick
Business School Admissions Committee make its admissions decision.

The questions on our recommendation form have been selected to help the Committee better
understand the candidate’s management potential and to determine whether the candidate is a
good fit for a Vlerick Masters/MBA Programme.

We ask that you provide short responses to each.

If you feel you are unable to answer a specific question, please indicate with an ‘N/A.’

Your name:

Your first name:

Reference letter for (please insert name and last name of the candidate):

Letters of reference questions:

1. In what capacity and for how long have you worked with the candidate?
2. Describe the candidate’s (professional) growth in the period you have known him/her.
3. What is the one area in which you would like to see the candidate improve?
4. In communicating his/her ideas, how would you rate the candidate on a scale of 1-10 and
what do you think the candidate could do to improve his/her communication style?
5. How does the candidate behave when working in a team (as a team-member and/or as a
team-leader)?
6. Where do you see the candidate in 5 to 10 years from now?
7. What, if anything, have you personally learned from the candidate?

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