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Education Credential Files
If you are an education major and wish to teach in the public schools,
you must complete a credential file with the Career Development Center.
Very few schools will consider hiring an applicant that does not have a
credential file, it is the expected way for the school districts to
receive your letters of recommendation.
1. What needs to be completed, signed, and in your file:
- Release of Information and Career Services Agreement – this authorizes
staff at the Career Development Center to release (mail or fax) your
application materials. These materials may include a letters of
recommendation, as well as a resume, cover letter, and/or application.
- Credential File Registration – this is your personal, education,
certification, and employment data. This information is for the office.
Please remember to update this information as it changes.
- Credential File References – this form helps the staff in the Career
Development Center help you keep track of letters received and letters
to be received.
- Recommendation Form – please fill out the information at the top, sign
and give to the person(s) you have chosen to writing a letter of
recommendation for you.
- You should have at least 3 letters of Recommendation in your file and
you may have more.
- We HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you mark the form “confidential”. Most
superintendents or interviewers want letters that are written in
confidence. It gives credibility to the information written about you.
- It also means once confidential always confidential, ie-you may never
ever see or have these letters. A completed confidential letter MUST be
delivered by the writer, in person, by mail or fax, directly to Linda
Lorenz, Director of the James C. Denneny Career Development Center.
- Please ask the person writing the letter of recommendation for you to
address the letter as “To whom it may concern”.
- If the person writing the letter is not on the CMU campus, it would be
courteous for you to provide a self addressed stamped envelope with the
recommendation form.
2. How to have your Credential File sent:
- Your request must be in writing. Complete the
Credential File Request
Form. Mail, fax or e-mail the request form to the Career Development
Center.
- If you wish to have your Credential File faxed, please include the fax
number on the request form.
3. What happens to my Credential File once I graduate?
- Your Credential File will be kept on file at the Career Development
Center for five years. During this time we will provide the service of
sending your requests for Credential Files free of charge.
- After five years you have the option to re-register your Credential
File through the web site (Using the
Alumni Credential Request Form). At this time a small fee of $10.00 for five
Credential Files sent will be charged. If you choose not to keep your
Credential File or do not re-register, your file will be destroyed.
Therefore, it is very important that you keep current contact
information on file with the Career Development Center.
- You may add Letters of Recommendation to your Credential File at any
time. Again, we recommend that you mark them confidential and follow the
same confidential protocol. When you have more than three letters in
your file it allows you to send all, or choose which of the letters you
want sent. Just remember to specify which letters you would like sent on
your request form.
4. Remember . . .
- It is in your best interest to keep your file and contact information
updated and current with us.
- Confidential means to the employer, that you have not handled or seen
the letters of recommendation.
- The Credential file does not include your transcript, resume, or cover
letter.
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