I'm about to graduate uni, no clue about professional etiquette 🥲 I have a casual job and an internship, both of which I'm about to finish.
I just got a job offer that needed a referee report from my two supervisors, but now I need another report from them as I'm looking to get into a grad program. I'll probably apply to at least three or four. I'm realising APS reference checks are more annoying than private, in that it's not just a phone call but an emailed two page referee report they have to fill out.
I bought both my supervisors gift cards as a preemptive thank you, but is it too much to ask them both to give four or five referee reports within the span of a few months?
If it's asking way too much, I can consider putting other people down on my future applications or maybe being very selective about which programs I apply for. Or maybe I shouldn't be job shopping so hard if I already got to the semi-final hiring stage of one grad program already.
Maybe I'm really overthinking this, but I had a previous manager not respond at all to a reference check and then ghost me when I tried to follow up, sort of costing me a job. So I reallyyy want to keep a good relationship with my current referees.