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NMMR - interview etiquette

Hello! I had an interview today for a job that I'm really interested in, and I want to send an email thank you. They are looking to hire quickly, so I don't want to send it through the mail, but rather in email. I do not have the email address for the person that interviewed me, only the person from their HR department that initially contacted me to schedule the interview. He is located in their office across the country, so he had nothing to do with the interview today. Should I just send the thank you email to him and say that I enjoyed meeting the people I interviewed with/ask him to forward it on, or should I try to track down the interviewer's email address on the Internet? TIA!

Re: NMMR - interview etiquette

  • Send one to the HR dept today. Then see if you can find the one of the person who interviewed you and email them. If you can't locate it, send them the snail mail thank you note.
  • I'd send a snail mail thank you note, either way.  Just make sure to get it in the mail today or tomorrow.  Assuming you are local to interviewer's office, they should receive your letter within 1-2 days of your sending it.

    As an example.  I bought NFL Saints tickets off Ebay on a Sunday with my H's downtown office for the address.  The seller mailed the tickets Monday morning from the main downtown post office and my H received the tickets the same afternoon.

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    Handwritten note in the mail today. 

    ETA: I always bring and give a business card when I'm interviewing someone as a test to see whether or not they send a handwritten note. I make it so easy that if they don't, I count them out. I do the same when someone fails to wear at minimum a tie (men) or blazer (women). I'm a total stickler!
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  • als1982 said:
    Handwritten note in the mail today. 

    ETA: I always bring and give a business card when I'm interviewing someone as a test to see whether or not they send a handwritten note. I make it so easy that if they don't, I count them out. I do the same when someone fails to wear at minimum a tie (men) or blazer (women). I'm a total stickler!

    Had I thought about it I would have asked for her contact info, but my point of contact so far has been many states away! I was tempted to dress semi casually compared to how I usually do for interviews because I know they are a casual company, but I ended up wearing my full suit. Luckily I had because they apparently just switched from casual back to business casual. When I interviewed for my current job I wore a nice dress and the lady interviewing me was wearing track pants haha.
  • I'd probably do handwritten notes to both people, just to be safe. Even with one across the country, better to cover your based.
  • beetee123 said:
    als1982 said:
    Handwritten note in the mail today. 

    ETA: I always bring and give a business card when I'm interviewing someone as a test to see whether or not they send a handwritten note. I make it so easy that if they don't, I count them out. I do the same when someone fails to wear at minimum a tie (men) or blazer (women). I'm a total stickler!

    Had I thought about it I would have asked for her contact info, but my point of contact so far has been many states away! I was tempted to dress semi casually compared to how I usually do for interviews because I know they are a casual company, but I ended up wearing my full suit. Luckily I had because they apparently just switched from casual back to business casual. When I interviewed for my current job I wore a nice dress and the lady interviewing me was wearing track pants haha.

    Makes total sense! My husband is the total opposite of me. He wears jeans to his interviews and expects his candidates to do their research to find out the company culture and dress code (casual). Goes to show you that every industry and company is different!
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  • als1982 said:
    beetee123 said:
    als1982 said:
    Handwritten note in the mail today. 

    ETA: I always bring and give a business card when I'm interviewing someone as a test to see whether or not they send a handwritten note. I make it so easy that if they don't, I count them out. I do the same when someone fails to wear at minimum a tie (men) or blazer (women). I'm a total stickler!

    Had I thought about it I would have asked for her contact info, but my point of contact so far has been many states away! I was tempted to dress semi casually compared to how I usually do for interviews because I know they are a casual company, but I ended up wearing my full suit. Luckily I had because they apparently just switched from casual back to business casual. When I interviewed for my current job I wore a nice dress and the lady interviewing me was wearing track pants haha.

    Makes total sense! My husband is the total opposite of me. He wears jeans to his interviews and expects his candidates to do their research to find out the company culture and dress code (casual). Goes to show you that every industry and company is different!
    Yup, my H went on an interview (tech company) where the recruiter specifically told him to NOT wear a suit or even a tie, since the company was super casual and they would think he wouldn't fit in if he wore one.  

    I'm a hypocrite.  When I used to do hiring I would always be super casual (my "uniform" those days was jeans and chucks), but if the candidate showed up too casual, it would be a negative.
  • Thanks for posting this; I actually have an interview in a few hours. If I get the job, it'll be the first job in my new field. It's a tech company, and I'm interviewing for a position at an iOS developer, but I'm sure how casual the company is yet. I've never visited their office location. It's been hot here, and I don't want to overheat in a blazer, so I think I'm going to wear a nice blouse and dress pants. I'm interviewing with the CTO and one of their developers, so I'll see if they give me their information. Otherwise, I'll send a thank you to the woman in HR that I had spoken to; she kind of pre-interviewed me too. 
  • lbonga1 said:
    Thanks for posting this; I actually have an interview in a few hours. If I get the job, it'll be the first job in my new field. It's a tech company, and I'm interviewing for a position at an iOS developer, but I'm sure how casual the company is yet. I've never visited their office location. It's been hot here, and I don't want to overheat in a blazer, so I think I'm going to wear a nice blouse and dress pants. I'm interviewing with the CTO and one of their developers, so I'll see if they give me their information. Otherwise, I'll send a thank you to the woman in HR that I had spoken to; she kind of pre-interviewed me too. 
    ASK for the information if it isn't volunteered!  I had a lot of interview (phone and in person) this year and they almost never offered a business card or contact information.  If I didn't already have it I at least asked for their email address and made sure I had the correct spelling of their names.

    I'm not such a stickler for hand written notes (although great if you do them) because it is such a fast paced world.  You want to show initiative and follow through and while a hand written thank you note is never out of place by the time it gets written, put in the mail, delivered to the company  and then hits the recipients desk they could have already made a decision.
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  • Congrats!  That's great news!
  • Yay! Congrats!
  • Congratulations!  Best possible outcome. 
  • Wow, that was fast!  That is such wonderful and exciting news!!  Congrats.
  • Congratulations, that is awesome!!
  • Thanks everyone! This will be great for paying down debt and our savings. It's about $10k more per year, so we can put that all into loans.
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