Interviewed sorry for my new job last week and sent a thank you note right away
while they said i would hear back right away i haven't my question is
any downside to sending a follow-up okay hi buddy come here
come on sorry about that i have a high maintenance dog who needs his attention um so couple things
everybody
three things three things write days down okay i interviewed for a job number one thank you
for your time during during the session love to know what the next step would be
who's going to contact me and by when okay
got to go three for three why do you need to know this so that you know when to follow up so
hey daniel i'm andy i just work here i don't know i don't i don't know what the next step is
okay andy what would normally be the next step after you
right this ain't the first time you're interviewing what would normally be the
first step does the recruiter get back to me awesome okay great um okay yeah i go give
my feedback to the recruiter great you caught you contact the recruiter what's the next step
are you going to contact me and buy when okay when when do you think you will have a decision
daniel i'm the recruiter i got to go talk to annie i got to give his feedback and then the next step
would be the next step usually is wait i need to go talk to the hiring official you've got to get
this information because that's what tells you whether you need to follow up or not if i said
to you hey you know what the hiring manager's out of town right now then he's going to europe for a
week vacation with his family i'm not going to know anything for two weeks there's no reason
for you to contact me right so if i don't say anything to you now you're like i didn't ask that
okay no problem if i would send the thank you to the interviewer i would copy the recruiter
okay i would send the recruiter a separate email that said hey i really enjoyed talking to andy
uh i just wanted to know uh just so i you know just so i have an understanding um i had a great
session would love to know what the next step would be um and and when you might know that
okay now you didn't get that information so now a week's gone by right you said right it's been
a week sent a thank you note right away while they haven't heard back right away i haven't
um so let's say well i mean last week could have been friday okay but either which way
it's thursday so i would email the recruiter say hey i just wanted to check in and by the
way i would not email the recruiter until monday all right email them say just wanted to check in
i realized it's only been a week but i thought i would check in to see if there's any update
if you don't have any update can you let me know when you might have an update buy when okay
so i'm assuming that you have a point of contact but that's what i would do
so i i know i i went into that there there really isn't a downside what you want to do is you want
to know what they expect because the amount of time that you use to follow up the span that is
is contingent on when they tell you they will actually contact you and the grace that you
provide them is associated with the length of time that they told you they needed what do i mean so
if i say to you daniel okay you know what this is great i'm going to talk to the hiring official
tonight i got to talk to him in an hour i'll get back to you tomorrow and i don't get back to you
tomorrow you give me one whole day and then you and then you go boom friday then go to monday
monday at the end of the day hey i know you said you'd get back to me just thought i'd check in
if i say hey it's gonna be a week you give me a week then three more days if i say two weeks you
give me three weeks right so it the grace depends on how long i told you it was going to take if i
say we're interviewing three candidates and it's going to take us a few weeks okay no problem
if i don't hear from you by when should i follow up kind of thing then you start asking those
questions but you got it you got you got a you got to know this stuff i go into nauseating detail in
the job interview mastery program for those who of you who are in the boot camp job search boot camp
i go into all this the why's the wherefores how to follow up what to say what not to say
all that good stuff in that program and any of you that have the job interview collection so
you know a lot uh i don't have the book but you know i give the interview intervention book
away for free with your chip in a few bucks i mail it to you anywhere in the world
for those people who take that book offer for the seven dollars you have an opportunity to get the
interview intervention course which is three hundred dollars and the job interview mastery
which is another cup you know hundred bucks and a few other things for all for ninety seven dollars
so that collection of interviewing uh stuff has this in there and i would check that out i don't
know if you're in that if you have access to that program but that's a way to get interviewing help
if you don't have the job search boot camp so it's a it's a pretty sweet deal by the way if you
actually have the interview intervention book you know you've already paid the seven bucks or you
grabbed the ebook for free maybe i gave it free at some point and you want the 97 dollar collection
just email us and i'll just send you the link and i'll give you the special price folks i
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