No, Thank YOU!

I was reading a post on Wired & Hired by Idalys Sansores titled "and Thank YOU!" In it, a recruiter emphasizes the importance of the thank you note.

From both a human resource and hiring manager’s perspective, I say yes, yes, and yes. Yes, candidates should most definitely send thank you notes. I am not picky, e-mail will do. I am sorry to say that my expectations are low. I don’t receive many thank you notes and because of that, I am VERY impressed when I do.

In a previous post I said that "as a manager, I have departmental goals to accomplish and performance measures to meet and I am going to select the person that I feel can help us meet those goals." The follow up to that is that I am going to select the candidate that can do the job and show me that they want the job more than anyone else does. A follow up thank you note is one way to do that.

Thank YOU Idalys!

Comments

[Kimberly Moritz]

I actually receive a lot of thank you notes from teacher candidates, must be they're being taught the niceties of interviewing somewhere. I'm always glad to see that extra touch. I'm absolutely sure I've gotten a job more than once because I've employed this strategy for at least 20 years. One employer told me that it got me the job because it was a "nice touch" and that theirs was a hospital in need of nice touches. Pretty easy effort for the return, don't you think?