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Thank You Letters after Interview
Quick question for my brother. He had two interviews last week and saw multiple people at each one. He wants to know if he should send a thank you letter to each interviewer that attended or a certain person? Also, if he writes one for everyone, does each letter need to be different?
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Re: Thank You Letters after Interview
"You don't get to be all puke-face about your kid shooting your undead baby daddy when all you had to do was KEEP HIM IN THE FLUCKING HOUSE, LORI!" - doctorwho
This.
Me too, mostly because that's somebody's bare foot and it might stink. I don't touch feet. LOL!
This one. Four years later and people still talk about my thank you notes and how one got delayed in the mail and that person was upset because they wanted one, too. LOL!
Please don't follow this advice. Personal notes on personal stationery
Thanks.....it was interesting to hear that people do share thank you letters.
I will pass this along. My brother needs to get these out ASAP as his interviews were last Thursday and Friday. The problem is I know creating that many different thank you lettters will be very challenging for him. Do the thank you letters need to be *that* different?
I am actually a hiring manager--my thoughts in the topic:
1. I make most of my hiring decisions before I would ever get a mailed letter.
2. Almost everyone uses cheap stationary, has bad handwriting and waits days to send them, so please avoid these pitfalls if proceeding.
3. I've actually maybe never gotten a handwritten letter from a man. Maybe one? I have gotten some emails. I have done hundreds of interviews in the last 4 years.
This is somewhat personal preference and industry specific. Like anything with job interviewing, it is best if you can get some intel about the hiring manager.
I usually write and mail mine right after I leave the interview. I have the stationary (Cranes) and all other necessary stuff in my bag and I stop at a nearby Starbucks or whatever to write them while everything is fresh in my mind, then drop them in the mail. They are usually in hand a day or so later.
You know neither have I (that I can remember anyway). And if I did, I only sent it to the main guy/gal, not every single person at the interview.
I really wonder just how important this is. I think the only way it would make a difference is if there were two people and they needed something to pick one over the other.
Thanks. From what my brother told me he received info (attendee names) on the interviews from an admin assistant. So, I'm not sure if he even knows who the hiring manager is.
From what you have written it sounds like the stress involved in creating, sending etc, is really not worth it.
I think it is a way to possibly separate yourself from the pack. You may not know that it's a contest between you and one or two other people, but that attention to detail may just be what pushes you into the win column.
I'll admit I haven't sent them for each and every job interview I've had over the years, but the jobs I did get are ones where I sent handwritten personalized notes. I think in my field there is an appreciation for the fact that you listened and took away some factoid about each person, since that's pretty much what our industry is about.
I've also gotten them -- some mailed, some emailed.
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It may not be worth the stress of sending handwritten notes at this point, but he should definitely send SOMETHING, e.g. an email.
"You don't get to be all puke-face about your kid shooting your undead baby daddy when all you had to do was KEEP HIM IN THE FLUCKING HOUSE, LORI!" - doctorwho
I always send emails because having interviewed many people I know that an up/down decision on moving forward is usually made in 24 hours. The recruiter I'm working with at the moment usually expects my feedback on candidates by COB same day of the interview.
Also I find as a candidate, sending emailed thank you'd often elicits a response that gives you a sense of where things are headed. After my second (of three) interviews for my current job the VP who interviewed me responded to my thank you with a note about how she was looking forward to working with me. That was a pretty clear indication that things went well and also that there weren't likely that many other candidates.
I always send an email thank you to each individual, as personalized as possible. I don't sent it through snail mail both because it's not the norm in my field, and because the turnaround time is way too long.
I try and remember what interviewers ask what questions, so in thank you personalization I may expand on an answer or repeat my key point in addressing it in my email to that person. Interviewers in my field also tend to have specialized positions/reasons for being on the hiring committee, so it's possible to personalize as far as what they may be looking for.
LOL thats it. My wife's feet are tiny and beautiful, and everyone else's (including mine) should STAY THE HELL AWAY lol