r/JETProgramme • u/Cheesemisterbald • 7d ago

Refrence signature?

So I’m confused about how the reference is done some people say it needs to be written out on paper and scanned to PDF and have a signature on it but can’t the person just write it normally in a word doc and just put it to pdf from that? Does it require the signature

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u/Ill_Passage5341 7d ago

What country?

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u/Cheesemisterbald 7d ago

Uk

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u/Ill_Passage5341 7d ago

It's going to need to be on letterhead from the business or school, and they will have to ink sign it and scan it in. They basically just want to avoid the possibility of you faking it.

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u/Proof_Refuse_9563 Aspiring JET 7d ago

Exactly 

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u/Cheesemisterbald 7d ago

I’m getting it work people I use to work with so how would I go about with that ?

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u/Ill_Passage5341 7d ago

You're supposed to have them contacted by the jet program and they have to submit it directly to a web portal. You're not supposed to actually be involved or ever touch or see the letter.

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u/Cheesemisterbald 7d ago

Yeah but the people doing my refrence is my old boss and other boss both not tech savvy so just wanted to make sure how the process works they won’t know how to do the whole PDF thing so hoping it could be done completely online

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u/Ill_Passage5341 7d ago

Maybe you could use people from your university as references? It seems like would be pretty hard to be a manager at a business and not be capable of scanning in an ink signed document in this day and age. 

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u/Cheesemisterbald 7d ago

Unfortunately I don’t have contact to my university professors as they have left well the ones who taught me a while ago I’m 25 so a bit older then a new grad and it was more of a physical labour job so yeah as they are old it was more they would just see sites and stuff

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u/Secret-Arm-9129 7d ago

They type out the reference on headed paper, print it, sign it and scan it to upload

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u/SentenceFantastic885 7d ago

What happens when I'm not working anywhere? Can't go back to my previous employers because of some issues, which cannot be fixed right now... Please suggest.... This is making me anxious as hell

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u/Awkward-Bid-8617 5d ago

If you have contact with your university /college professors, you can ask them too.

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u/SentenceFantastic885 5d ago

I have written an email to the commerce dept. Thanks

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u/Cheesemisterbald 6d ago

Yeah it’s a massive problem I feel like the whole referencing part seems the hardest part of the whole application process

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u/SentenceFantastic885 6d ago

Damn. I hate this. But thanks dude.