The difference between candidates who get the job and
candidates who don’t often boils down to how they
treat seemingly insignificant tasks like writing the
job interview thank you note. The job candidates who
remain candidates usually write their thank you note
like the many notes that they have seen before. They
don’t think about the purpose of the note, they don’t
try to imagine how to make that note do even more for
their search, they don’t turn that note into a
productive piece of their total marketing strategy. In
other words, they just write a job interview thank you
note. This not typically consists of an expression of
gratitude, an expression of continued interest in the
position, and an invitation to further communication.
The job interview thank you note written by the
candidate looking for every advantage is different. He
or she knows enough to include the minimum expected
requirements of a job interview thank you note. But
for him or her, that note is just the start of the
process. He or she wants for every piece of his job
search process to contribute to creating the
impression that he or she wants to create. He or she
uses each contact with the interviewer as an
opportunity to convince the interviewer of the message
that the interviewer believes will land the job. As a
result, the motivated and creative job seeker will
attempt to do more with the thank you job interview
note or letter.
More Job Interview Thank You Note Considerations
When the successful candidate writes his or her job
interview thank you note, he or she wants to add
something of value for the reader. One efficient way
to do this is to combine the note with some piece of
information that the interviewer finds valuable.
During the interview, it’s likely that the interviewer
displayed some sort of interest in some topic or
subject that came up in the talk. That subject or
topic might be related to the business, such as a
project that the interviewer is involved in. Or that
subject or topic might be unrelated to business, and
have come up in the warm up to the interview. In
either case, the job candidate who notices that level
of interest can leverage it later.
After the candidate writes his or her job interview
thank you note, he or she finds some information
related to that topic or subject. By including it into
the thank you note, this candidate demonstrates that
he or she is perceptive, unselfish and a good
executor. What’s more, this information makes reading
the thank you note so much more rewarding for the
interviewer. So rewarding that he or she is much more
likely to pay attention to future communications which
the job seeker might send in. Though none of these
advantages is by itself enough to give an unqualified
candidate an edge over a qualified one, they could
certainly help sway the decision of someone who could
go either way.
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