{"id":339,"date":"2012-05-30T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T16:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cecsearch.com\/WordPress\/?p=339"},"modified":"2022-08-08T03:59:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T07:59:41","slug":"job-interview-thank-you-email-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/30\/job-interview-thank-you-email-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Interview Thank You Email Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest post by Peggy McKee of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.CareerConfidential.com\">Career Confidential<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Always <a href=\"http:\/\/careerconfidential.com\/job-interview-email-guidelines\/\">email a thank you<\/a> after every job interview<\/h1>\n<p>Never underestimate how important thank you letters are to the impression you make on the company in your job interview process.<\/p>\n<p>I continue to be surprised by how many job seekers skip this step. But believe me, hiring managers notice if you don&#8217;t send one. Not sending a thank you note makes you look like you don&#8217;t care about getting that job.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just a manners thing&#8230;although they matter a lot. In a contest between two equally qualified people, the one with the <a href=\"http:\/\/estrinlegaled.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2011\/11\/are-good-manners-a-requirement-for-business-success.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nice manners<\/a> seems like a much more pleasant person to work with for the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you letters serve several purposes for you besides politeness:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They get your name in front of the hiring manager one more time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>They are one more chance to sell yourself as the best, most qualified person for the job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>They show your ability to take in information (the interview) and provide feedback or new ideas about whatever problem or issue the company faces (why they need you). For example: \u201cI thought about your concerns about how to handle xyz delivery issues, when I was a product manager at ABC corporation, we used\u2026\u2026\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And always make sure your thank you note is sent as a <strong>thank you email.<\/strong> Handwritten thank-yous are nice, but e-mails are fast. Hiring decisions can be made quickly, and you don&#8217;t want to miss your chance to influence it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click to get a FREE audio on how to <a href=\"http:\/\/careerconfidential.com\/phone-interview-thank-you-note-etiquette\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow up after the interview<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest post by Peggy McKee of Career Confidential Always email a thank you after every job interview Never underestimate how important thank you letters are to the impression you make on the company in your job interview process. I continue to be surprised by how many job seekers skip this step. But believe me, hiring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogswap","category-job-seekers-tips","category-restaurant-jobs","category-restaurant-recruiters-viewpoint","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}