How different do your two professional recommendations need to be? I’ve worked for two years under the same management because of mutual trust. Any other recommendations would be dated or worse.

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It was recommended to me that I get my second recommender outside consulting, but that fits my pitch better (military recommender). I would posit that, absent a similar situation to me, if those two people will give you the best recommendation then go for it.

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