Jennifer Tardy here and welcome to another YouTube video I am your career
success coach and you are on the black career success Channel so today we're
going to talk about how to impress them once an interview is done what do you
need to do what are those things that you need to think about I have three
tips here for you so make sure you tune in all the way through so that you hear
all three tips and I'll even share with you one of my own stories at the very
end don't forget if you like this video subscribe to the channel because we
always have plenty of other videos to show you so the very first thing is
after an interview is completed always send a note to say thank you and
in that note you're saying I appreciate you putting aside time I know you have a
busy schedule so I want to say thank you for interviewing me for such and such
position and then within that same note finish a conversation that you started
during the interview and this is how you personalize that note and this is what
makes the interviewer actually pay attention because it's unlike the norm
let's say within the conversation the person who was interviewing you
mentioned something about a pitfall that they experienced on a previous job you
in your thank-you letter to them you'll say and you know I sincerely appreciate
you sharing with me the pitfall that you experienced at your last company what
made you decide to make the decisions that you made after that pitfall did you
see what just happened so now not only did you continue a conversation which
shows that you were listening and paying attention the second thing that you did
is you're showing your engagement in your curiosity to know more and you're
asking them a question and ads are as they are reading through the email
because you personalized it they want to respond to your question and so by that
way you're keeping the conversation going now the third thing that I
recommend for people but this isn't for everybody
is filling a gap in your thank-you letter so let's say for instance your
interviewer asked you a question and either you didn't have the data that
you need it to answer the question or you didn't really know the answer to the
question or maybe you just didn't answer it the way that you really knew you can
answer that question in that moment your thank-you note to them should easily
answer that question and it will it will go a little something like this hey by
the way I know that you asked me about such-and-such
I just wanted to clarify briefly and then you're able to answer the question
so that way any sort of question marks that were left behind by way of how you
answered the interview question on-site you now close the gap there so those are
the three tips that I have for you by way of staying connected and continuing
the conversation after your interview be sure to use them and make sure even
though I've given you those three points that you are still concise in your
thank-you letter to your hiring manager remember they don't have a lot of time
to read through a very very long email so it should be a very brief email
addressing those three points and I know that I said that I have a funny story to
share with you I decided to take my own advice a while back and I made a really
big error it which is why you'll understand why I shared a piece of this
advice with you before there was one job that I was overly interested in I knew
that this job was for me I saw my name written all over the job but I didn't
know if I did that well in the interview so do you know what I did after the
interview I sent a thank-you letter and in that thank-you note to the hiring man
I said I appreciate you interviewing me I love talking about this and by the way
here are all the other qualifications that I forgot to mention when we were in
the interview together and it was a long email and I remembered her sending me an
email back in her first sentence was do not ever send me an email this long
again and and what was great about that is that she was open to responding to
all of my questions knowing just how busy she was so that said a lot about
her as a manager as well too but I found it funny because I you know learned from
trial and error as we all do and that's why I share with you that even though
you can get someone to respond make sure your your response or your
thank-you note is concise is short brief into a point don't make the same error
that I made all right so if you like this video again don't forget to
subscribe to our YouTube channel the black career success Channel again I am
your career success coach I'm Jennifer tardy I'll see you at the next video
take care