Hi everyone. Its Bill at billbenoist.com. Would you like to significantly
increase the chances of a second interview, or even a job offer? In today's
video I'm gonna talk about the importance of the Thank You Email, as
well as the step-by-step process of how to go about creating one. I want to share
a statistic with you. Top Resume, which is, I believe it's the
world's largest resume writing service. They did a study last year where they
polled 358 recruiters and hiring managers, and what they learned was that
68% of the respondents said they were significantly influenced by the receipt
of a thank you email when considering candidates for job openings. Sixty-eight
percent from the same study also showed that one in five, or about 20% of candidates
were actually dismissed because they had not sent in a thank-you email. And what I
thought was most surprising, only one in three candidates actually will send in a
thank-you email after an interview. One in three! So, you need to be sending Thank
You Emails whenever you're interviewing. If you want to increase the odds of
getting that second interview, or maybe even a job offer. Yeah, you definitely need
to be sending in thank you emails. And here's a couple of rules of thumb about
thank you emails. Number one, you want to send them within 24 hours of the
interview. Number two, you want to send a thank you email to every person who you
actually interviewed with. Which means that you need to make sure you're
getting a business card from everyone, or at the very least make sure that you
write down and take note of their email address. And finally, this study also said
that 82%, this is a high number 82%, of the
individuals polled mentioned that receiving that thank you email, I mean
thank you letter through email was actually completely acceptable. In other
words, you do not need to go old school and be sending that thank you letter
through US Postal Service. So how do you create a thank you email or a thank you
letter. Really, it's very easy and it's just a three-step process. The first
paragraph, you just simply need to thank the interviewer for his or her time and
reaffirm your interest in the organization. In the second paragraph,
refer to something learned from the interview and reinforce it with one or two
bullet points from your resume. Or maybe talk a little bit about your
experience in one sentence or two that directly relates to what you learned in
that position. And then finally, your closing paragraph, thank the
interviewer and reference a call to action. That you're looking forward to
the next step in the process. All right, one final note and that is before
you send out any thank-you email, make sure that you check the grammar and
spelling. Don't rely on Microsoft spell checker to do that for you. So I hope you
found this video informative and useful, and if so, make sure that you subscribe
to my channel as I do upload a new career strategy every Tuesday. And also,
if you're in the stages of interviewing, I do have a free download in the notes
section below: The top five interview questions that any hiring manager really
wants to know about you. Thank you so much for stopping by, and I will see you
in the next video.