hey everybody Don Georgevich here
job interview tools I hope you doing
well today in this video I want to teach
you how to plan your follow-up strategy
so here's how the interview process is
supposed to work we send out resumes we
get called for job interviews we go back
for second and third interviews and we
get the offer that's that's basically it
or at least that's how they're supposed
to work but they don't always work out
that way and there's a lot of reasons
for that of reasons which you're never
going to know so what happens when you
go through the entire interview process
everything was great and you're
expecting the job offer but it never
comes what do you do then and the
interviewer might have even been so bold
as to tell you that you know what we
think we're going to offer you a job you
can expect an offer from us so within
the next week and you're like wow that's
great so you go home and you sit in one
week goes by two weeks go by three weeks
go by what happened well now you don't
know what to do because they said they
were gonna offer you a job but it didn't
come through did they change their mind
did they not like me what what happened
well we don't really know so that's
where you want to have a planned
follow-up strategy because right now you
have a lead consider a job interview a
lead it's a hot lead if they're
interested in you then you want to
nurture that lead you want to stay in
contact with them you don't want them to
forget about you so here's what I mean
by a planned interview follow-up
strategy make sure that you have your
interviewers contact information make
sure you have their phone number make
sure you have their email address and
you have plenty of opportunity to get
this if you've already had one or two
interviews with them you should have
asked for this information at the end of
the interview just say hey mr. Jones can
I get your email address or can I have
your business card or can I have your
phone number now that you have their
contact information
the next thing you want to do is ask
them and say hey do you mind if I follow
up with you in maybe ten days or a week
or two weeks now you have to you have to
ask this question around their time
frame so now that you have their contact
information the thing that you want to
do is start planning your follow-up
strategy and so what I like to do is I
ask them like flat out I say when do you
plan on making a hiring decision and if
they tell me well we hope to hire
somebody with the next two weeks but
then what I'll say is do you mind if I
follow up with you next week do you mind
if I give you a call or send you an
email to touch base certainly they're
going to say yes now on the other hand
if I ask them when they plan to make a
hiring decision and they say well
hopefully within six weeks then what
I'll do is I'll say do you mind if I
follow up with you in three or four
weeks do you mind if I give you a call
or do you mind if I email you and by
asking them asking for permission now
you don't feel bad calling them because
in the interview they said no we don't
mind if you give us a call at all so now
you can call them up and you can ask
them questions about the status of the
position this is what I mean by a
planned follow up strategy but you need
their contact information and you need
to ask them for permission to follow up
with them in the interview and you get a
sense of their timeline of when they
plan to make a decision so you can time
your follow-up call around or before
they plan to make a decision because you
don't want to call you don't want to
follow up after they plan to make a
decision because then it'll be too late
you want to follow up with them before
they make a decision so that you can
further influence them with all of your
greatness about why they should hire you
so if you are expecting a job offer if
they told you we're going to give you an
offer next week and let's say that offer
hasn't come yet what you want to do is
call them pick up the phone and call
them don't email them don't text them I
mean that's email and text just cheap
and easy anybody can do it if you are
working with hot lead a company that
wants to hire you they they want to pay
you money to come and work for them
they deserve a phone call so pick up the
phone and give them a call and if you
get their voice mess if you get their
voicemail you can leave them a voicemail
but plan this out plan out what you're
going to say because chances are you're
probably not going to get them directly
but if you do plan out what you're going
to say write it out just get get
yourself a pen get some paper and say
okay the first thing I'm going to do is
I'm going to say hey I'm following up on
this position or whatever your script is
whatever you want to say whatever you
want to know write it out have it in
front of you that way when you call you
won't look like a deer in the headlights
and you won't be in a loss for words
you'll know exactly what you're going to
say how you're going to say it and
you'll know what you're gonna say if
they pick up the phone and you'll know
what you're going to say if you get
voicemail and you can leave them a nice
well-planned well-thought-out
voicemail that you've already scripted
out ahead of time generally I don't like
to leave voice messages but I also don't
like to keep calling and waiting for
them to pick up because their caller ID
is going to show my number and I don't
want them to see you know you know dodge
order it's called ten times so you hung
up you never left a message that doesn't
look good for me so I would encourage
you maybe call them once maybe twice and
try to get them on the phone if you
can't then be prepared with a nice
well-thought-out voicemail script and
leave them a nice message and encourage
them to call you back and tell them that
you know hey I'm I'm I know you had
mentioned that you were going to send me
an offer I haven't received it yet I
just wondered what the status of the
position is and if anything has changed
or something like that it's not too hard
it's just it's a very simple
conversation alright that's all I have
for you today thank you so much for
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