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Subject:Re: To thank or not to thank... From:Rebecca Merck <Rebecca -dot- Merck -at- ONESOFT -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:26:34 -0400
Here's my personal statistic:
I have been offered every job I sent a written thank you letter after.
I was overwhelmingly favorably impressed by the one applicant who bothered
to send a hand-written thank you note after an interview; I was favorably
impressed by applicants who sent email thank yous by COB (or SOB if the
interview was in the afternoon).
I have been negatively inclined towards those who do NOT send a thank you
note, and yet who CAN take the time to call time and again asking when we
will have a final decision, when I indicated in the interview that we were
having a group of applicants in over the period of a couple of weeks and
would make a decision at the end of the batch of interviews.
