How important are letter of recommendation from a financial company

I’m applying for accounting and finance at Uni. I have taken a gap year. On UCAS there’s this thing about recommendation letters.

Essentially I got some relevant work experience at a financial institution and a pretty high level guy there can give me a recommendation letter.
Can this increase my Odds of getting an offer ? And is the letter even looked at let alone important.

Would you recommend me to do this. Thank you

(edited 11 months ago)

Reply 1

Admit-One

Universities Forum Helper

If you are only on a gap year then your choices will still need an academic reference and professional ones are unlikely to be considered.

Reply 2

zynnjah123

Original post

by Admit-One

If you are only on a gap year then your choices will still need an academic reference and professional ones are unlikely to be considered.

Yea the school I went to will do that for me. I meant letter of recommendation. Anyways with that in mind what do u think.

Reply 3

McGinger

Unis will only consider 'what is on the UCAS application' - and will disregard extra references.
This is so that the process is entirely fair and equal for all applicants.

In your PS you should mention what your work-experience showed you, but remember that you are applying for an academic degree course and not a job.

Reply 4

Admit-One

Universities Forum Helper

Original post

by zynnjah123

Yea the school I went to will do that for me. I meant letter of recommendation. Anyways with that in mind what do u think.

As above, it won’t be looked at or taken into account for undergrad ACCYFIN. The value of any work exp is talking about any relevant aspects in your PS.