Career Services has partnered with Interfolio, Inc., the nation’s leader in electronic portfolio services, to provide an entirely web-based reference letter service. Through this web page, students can set up their electronic portfolios and access them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from any location. The electronic portfolio provides a convenient way to request letters of recommendation and mail them out to graduate and professional schools. It takes just 2 minutes to create an account and begin building your portfolio immediately. Account set-up and maintenance fees are as low as $15 a year. It takes only a few minutes to sign-up. Interfolio Contact Information: help@interfolio.com
Benefits of the online Reference Letter Service:24 hour access: Our system is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from anywhere in the world so you can manage your job search when and where you want. UW branding: Sign up with Interfolio through the Career Services web site, and the forms and memos we send out on your behalf will be personalized to you and show the UW logo. Easy storage for a variety of documents: Your portfolio can be used not only for letters of recommendation, but also for curriculum vitae, writing samples, dissertation abstract, supervising teacher evaluation, student & peer evaluations, and transcripts. Single package delivery Interfolio allows you to put all the documents you need to apply for a position in one package. Targeted, customized deliveries You can specify a unique set of documents for each delivery. And you can specify the order in which your materials are packaged so your presentation is powerful and persuasive. Low Cost Since you need only send one delivery to each position, you save money and headaches; it's cheaper to send a 30 page delivery through Interfolio than to go to Kinko's and the US Post Office. Self managed files With Interfolio you have control of your portfolio. You don't have to rely on others to make intelligent decisions about what documents are delivered on your behalf. Lightning-Fast Delivery We send every delivery within one business day of your request. If you need to meet a deadline, we can send express deliveries the same day (as long as you make the request by 2 PM EST). For clients with paper files If you signed up with the Reference Letter Service prior to April 2006, a paper file was created to store your letters. Now that all files are managed online, your paper file has been transferred to Interfolio and your new electronic account is already created.To access your account, containing all of the letters from your paper file, Contact Interfolio inform them that you are a pre-existing client of the UW Reference Letter Service. They will provide you with the username and password for your account. |
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