For many job seekers, the job interview thank you is a
task to go through the motions on, to simply follow
habit and the crowd. In most cases that means simply
writing a quick note or email to the person or people
that the candidate interviewed with. Typically these
notes or emails consist of exactly the same kind of
stale, meaningless information. The note will thank
the interviewer for the interview, will express
continued interest in the job and will invite the
interviewer to contact the candidate again for more
conversations. Though there is nothing inherently
harmful about an interview thank you note like this,
there is not much beneficial about it either.
The job seeker who wants to use every part of the
interview process to land the dream job, however, will
want to do more with the job interview thank you note.
This candidate will want to use the job interview
thank you email as a chance to make another strong and
favorable impression on the interviewer. What’s more
important, the smart candidates want to use that
thank you interview note to open the door to future
communication between the interviewer and the
candidate. It’s possible that the job candidate
decision might take some time to complete, or that the
candidate might want to re-apply for other positions
with the company later. In both these cases, a
personal connection between the candidate and
interviewer could be very useful.
The Job Interview Thank You Secret
The secret of the job interview thank you note that
accomplishes all the tasks of making a stronger
impression, of opening the door to future
communications and creating a relationship between the
interviewer and candidate lies in the use of the
“informational gift.” The informational gift is the
piece of information that you add to the thank you
interview note that is of use to the interviewer. This
might be something so simple as an article about a
business development, a contact name, or a list of
French restaurants in a part of town. What all these
things have in common is that they were chosen because
the interviewer expressed some sort of interest in
that topic during the interview. The smart job seeker
noted that interest, did some research to find the
information which matched that interest, and included
it into the interview.
Including that gift into the job interview thank you
is simplicity itself. The job seeker simply writes a
normal, typical boring job interview thank you letter,
with all the usual components. Then the job seeker
adds a couple more lines referring to the conversation
which initiated the gift, and offers the gift. For
instance, a letter might end with “during our
conversation, you mentioned that you are pursuing
Quality Control Process training. That reminded me of
an article I’d recently read about how that training
was used to turn around a company’s business quite
dramatically. I’ve attached a link to the article if
you are interested in reading it for yourself.”
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