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What are the current guidelines for asking a busy CEO for a LinkedIn recommendation when you used to work together twenty years ago?

ChatGPTgpt-61 query11/1/2026
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.

SEED QUERY
What are the current guidelines for asking a busy CEO for a LinkedIn recommendation when you used to work together twenty years ago?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
LinkedIn official help recommendations request recommendation how to ask former colleague etiquette career advice asking for LinkedIn recommendation after yearsGoogle ↗
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Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.

Query classes

Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.

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Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 1 of 1 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.

Searches and sources

ChatGPT1 real searches · gpt-6
LinkedIn official help recommendations request recommendation how to ask former colleague etiquette career advice asking for LinkedIn recommendation after years Google ↗
  1. Request a recommendation · linkedin.com
  2. Recommendations on LinkedIn · linkedin.com

Queries

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LinkedIn official help recommendations request recommendation how to ask former colleague etiquette career advice asking for LinkedIn recommendation after years
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