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INeedLove
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First, best wishes in your job search!
A week seems a short time to be listing on a resume or CV. However, if that work experience resulted in significant experience or writing, then it is very valid to include. The reference may not be comfortable discussing your work worthiness outside of that timeframe. In other words, he may not have enough time with you to be able to tell another potential employer very much about you. But he could refer to your resulting work.
I recommend you ask him over the phone instead of via email. You are trying to establish a network. If you talk to him in real time, you can ask if he has other leads or even try to feel him out about a potential job with his company. On top of it, you will have taken time to establish contact instead of succoming to the "fast" and more impersonal method of email.
This is your career so you need to do what feels best. I hope my 2 cents helps. Feel free to PM me. I work with students and these sorts of issues quite a bit.
Good luck!!
A week seems a short time to be listing on a resume or CV. However, if that work experience resulted in significant experience or writing, then it is very valid to include. The reference may not be comfortable discussing your work worthiness outside of that timeframe. In other words, he may not have enough time with you to be able to tell another potential employer very much about you. But he could refer to your resulting work.
I recommend you ask him over the phone instead of via email. You are trying to establish a network. If you talk to him in real time, you can ask if he has other leads or even try to feel him out about a potential job with his company. On top of it, you will have taken time to establish contact instead of succoming to the "fast" and more impersonal method of email.
This is your career so you need to do what feels best. I hope my 2 cents helps. Feel free to PM me. I work with students and these sorts of issues quite a bit.
Good luck!!
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Seamus123
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Thanks a lot, I might take your offer a PM up if I don't get anywhere else. I'd phone him but I'm worried that might be even more clingy than an email! I realised that a week normally isn't any sort of timeframe to base a reference for someone off of, but the work experience was a week's worth of magazine journalism - exactly the field I'd want to get into. I wouldn't normally worry so much about getting a reference but I think a reference from someone like this would be really beneficial to my CV. thanks!
