Dear Professor: A student has applied for a summer job with the Conference Office to help with a number of conferences that we will host this summer. Whenever a student applies for one of these jobs, we ask the student’s professors for a brief assessment of that student’s qualities. As we get closer to making our final hiring decisions, we will ask some of these professors to write a more detailed letter about the student. For this first round, however, all we ask you to do is answer the following questions on this form and send it back to us within three weeks. Thank you in advance for your help.

Student’s Name: Thomas A. Jackson

Your Name:          Dr. Robert Taylor

Your Title:             Associate Professor

Your Department:  Psychology

How long, and in what capacity, have you known the applicant?

 Tom was a student in my intermediate psychology course two years ago, and
 is currently a student in two of my courses: Personality, and Social Psychology.

Do you know anything about this student’s non-academic work habits? If so,then  please elaborate.

 I am not familiar with Tom’s non-academic work habits; I can comment only on
 Tom’s work in my classes.

Please list a few traits, or personal characteristics, that you think accurately describe this
student:

 Tom seems to me to be sincere, self-disciplined, happy, and productive.

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Based on what the professor wrote about Thomas Jackson, how positive or negative is your
overall impression of this student?

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 very negative                                                                                   very positive