hey everybody Don Georgevich here with
job interview tools stop sending thank-you
letters after a job interview they don't
work at least that's what one guy told
me I had a customer right in the other
day said Don I've been sending thank-you
letters after all my interviews I never
got any jobs thank-you letters don't
work and well you know what maybe they
don't always work but you know what
thank-you letters don't hurt either
I mean all you're doing is sending out a
note of thanks to your interviewer
you're thanking them for them their time
you're thanking them for inviting you
out to an interview you're letting them
know that you're still interested in
this position that's what a thank-you
letters doing how much weight does it
carry
I mean if thank-you letter probably only
carries maybe that much weight maybe
five to ten percent could be a little
bit more but it's not going to carry
fifty percent or 60 percent weight so I
mean if you're you know you're
interviewing for a VP of Sales position
and you've never sold anything in your
life and you sent a thank-you letter
well that's not going to convince them
that you can do the job I mean if you're
trying to interview for a position that
requires twenty years of engineering
experience and you only have two they're
not gonna hire you no matter how many
thank-you letters you send out a thank
you letter or a follow-up letter is only
meant to show appreciation for the
interview and to nudge them a little bit
in your direction that's it
it's not gonna flip them over completely
it's not gonna make them change their
mind I mean if they have their mind made
up that you're not right for the job
you're not qualified it's not gonna
change their minds but if it gets down
to three candidates three candidates
that they all like equally and you send
out a thank you letter that says hey you
know thanks for your time it was great
meeting with you I won't let you know
that I'm still interested it's still
interested in this position and I'd like
to go farther now the three candidates
who are you going to pick
really who are you gonna pick you're
gonna pick the one that sent a thank-you
letter so in that case that follow-up
letter works but you know if you're just
one of 10 candidates where they've
already found three candidates that they
like and you're like number eight or
nine sending a thank-you letter isn't
gonna matter you could send all the
thank-you letters in the world and
that's not gonna matter so yes they work
and yes they don't work nothing works
every time I mean if it were that easy
you just go out and just interview and
just send out thank-you letters and
you'd get every job but it doesn't work
that way but I'll tell you this I have
heard back from far more people ten to
one that the thank-you letter made all
the difference in the world all the
difference I get an email every week
from somebody saying hey Don I
interviewed for a lot of jobs
I sent out a thank-you letter and then
next thing I know I got that job they
called me and sometimes they even say
you know they even mentioned that
thank-you letter you know I thanks for
sending that you know it's nice to
connect in you in that way now this is
not just in the United States either we
can go overseas I was working with a
woman who was in London and I told her I
said you know hey you have to send out a
follow-up letter after your interview
and she's like oh no no no that's we
don't do that here that that's kind of
against our our code of interviewing and
if it's really against it but it's just
it's not customary in Europe to send out
follow-up letters but you know what she
did the girl from London sent out
thank-you letter and then BAM she got
the job and it was because she sent the
thank-you letter she the employer said
you know hey you were the only one of
ten people who followed up with us with
a note of thanks you know that
immediately set you apart from everyone
else and you got the job
so thank you letters work so someone and
the best time to do it is right through
your interview usually within 24 hours
and what I like to do is I like to
already have my thank-you letter planned
out like exactly what I'm going to say I
mean I'll go ahead and I'll make
few changes to it before I actually send
it but before I go on the interview I
actually have it written it's all done
all I have to do is just change a few
things so what we'll do
so go on the interview and I'll get a
few more details I'll come back home and
then I'll send them that thank-you
letter within a couple of hours of the
interview I mean you have usually up to
24 hours no more than 24 hours is is a
good rule of thumb we're sending out a
thank-you letter now to help you to help
you go farther with a thank-you letter I
would strongly recommend picking up a
copy of perfect thank-you letters this
book has over a hundred different
thank-you letters for engineering
accounting finance government health
care teaching engineering I might have
said that one already I don't know sales
you name it it's in here I've got
several different letters for all kinds
of professions it's going to teach you
how to write one it's gonna show you
what needs to be in your thank you
letter to demonstrate that you're
grateful for their time and that you're
still interested in the position
or maybe you screwed up your interview
maybe it didn't go all that well I've
got some tips in here to help you fix a
botched interview it's a way to kind of
you know just bring it out to the
surface and say well you know that's not
exactly what I meant to say or I know
you have some concerns about me in the
interview or me doing this job this is a
way to kind of correct a bad interview
so that maybe it's not so bad anymore or
it gives you an opportunity to to add
more value like you know what maybe
maybe you're in the interview and you
forgot to tell them something that you
could really help them make an important
decision about hiring you and maybe you
forgot to mention that in the interview
I've got an example in here that shows
you how to bring up those lost points
that you failed to mention during the
interview so this is a quick and easy
download from Java TV tools.com
I will put a link for this below this
book is only available in eBook it is
not available in a hard book like you
see here this is just a special copy I
printed just so I could materialize this
for you in the in the video but you
really don't
need the heart book this is not the kind
of book that you're gonna go through and
you know making all kinds of changes and
edits and stuff like that so this book
is only an e-book you get it from Java
devtools com
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