![]() Why You Should Be Following Up After An InterviewĪn overwhelming majority of HR managers say it’s appropriate to send a thank-you email or leave a handwritten note following an interview. Get a phone number, not an email, so you don’t just hear radio silence. Have a notepad you can write that info down on. If I don’t hear from you in two weeks and two days, would it be all right for me to follow up with you?”Īnd when they say yes, as most do, make sure you get contact details. I’m trying to stay really organized in my job search. Most employers will say something along the lines of two weeks. The second question you need to make sure you’re asking employers at the end of every interview is to find out when you’ll hear back. Better to discuss it with you, right there, rather than with a hiring committee after you’ve left. You’re there, and you have the opportunity to address their concerns. If they have any reservations – maybe they’re concerned your lack of experience will hold you back – you want to have a rebuttal ready that you can back up with examples. But those are qualities that should impress your prospective employer. The first is, “Do you know what reservations you have about hiring me for this role?” I’ll dive into that next.īut there are two more things you need to do before you make your way out the door. One is to send a thank-you note within 24 hours. That’s when I discovered that there’s actually quite a bit of research supporting a few more steps that I initially thought were optional. It was after that conversation with my friend that I set out to find out if maybe I was missing a step in the process. It took a lot of research, strategy, and practice to begin seeing traction in my applications and interviews.Īnd, after months, I began landing interview after interview.īut, no matter how many site visits or final interviews I was invited to, I never received a job offer.Īnd I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong. You should hear back from someone at XYZ Company within the week.” Your Interview Isn’t Really Over After The Final Handshake ![]() This was exactly what your candidacy was missing. One even went so far as to say, “I appreciate your email, Isaiah. …and was pleasantly surprised to hear back from all but one of them. So, following each interview, I sent one thank-you note to each interviewee… “If you don’t get any results at least you can say you tried,” he said. “I thought it sounded kind of dated.”īut he encouraged me to experiment and decide for myself. “What’s the cutoff? How many thank you letters does one interview warrant, would you say?”īut he pressed me – what was I doing in the way of follow-up emails? ![]() ![]() Was I following up, he asked, after my first thank you letter? It was a friend of mine that brought the topic up to me again, many job rejections and several employer ghostings later. I could get behind the thank you itself, but using it as some kind of strategic leverage to land a job? That sounded pretty far-fetched. Like reminding them that I’m excited about the position? Obviously – I just left the interview. How trustworthy is job search advice from a bygone decade?Īnd some of the points these articles wanted me to include sounded desperate to me. ![]() I’d read or overheard it said that I should “be sure to send a thank you message after you leave your interview.”īut every article or blog post I read about this topic was roughly 10 years old. Thank you notes weren’t a totally foreign concept to me. I wish I could say that I didn’t know I should send a thank-you email after my industry interviews, but that’s not entirely true. ![]()
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