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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 12:46 pm
thanks, mocha. are you in personnel? <grin>
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 1:15 pm
Lol no, I wish though.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 2:15 pm
Well do you know someone in personnel? <grin>
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 2:20 pm
hey! why didn't i think of that? thanks, urgrace.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 12:56 am
I read this in "Woman's World" tonight ~ Did you know? Nearly 15% of hiring managers would reject a job candidate who neglected to send a thank-you letter after the interview! So, I'm wondering when did this start? I've only heard of this practice the last few years. What does sending a thank you letter have to do with your work capabilities and job qualifications? Do you or don't you see the importance of this custom and why or why not?
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 1:45 am
I've always sent a 'thank you' letter after an interview -- at least, after an interview for a job I really wanted. Not only does it show the potential employer that you really want the job, and that you're still thinking about your interview; but it also gives you a chance to clear up any misgivings that may have arisen during the interview. The job I'm at now, they told me about a year after I was hired, that they were close to not hiring me, but the 'thank you' that I sent that said, "I'm concerned that maybe I have given you the wrong impression about such-and-such" made them change their minds. It's an interesting dynamic, to be sure. It doesn't have so much to do with your capabilities or competence as an employee so much as it does about your morals and values as a person, IMO.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 2:01 am
I've heard some people take a thank you letter with them to the interview and give it to the interviewers once the interview is over. I'm not arguing with you, Karen. I just wonder what a thank you letter is going to tell them about my morals and values. I can say anything in a letter but that doesn't make it so. The whole concept is strange to me.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 2:19 am
People have sent thank-you letters after interviews for decades. Not all people, of course, but it certainly has been done. I think what it can do is help you to stand out in a group of people they've interviewed, shows you actually want the job and hopefully, shows that you know how to put words together in a letter. And that you are a person who follows through, is active and not passive.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 2:35 am
I see. As I said, I have not heard of this practice until a few years ago. I'm just curious how much it is actually done and why. I would think your resume and cover letter would show you can actually write properly. As a hiring manager in the past a thank you letter would mean nothing to me except that you know how to play the game. It wouldn't make a bit of difference in whether I would hire you or not. I thought it interesting to see that up to 15% would not hire someone who didn't send a letter.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 2:39 am
Well that isn't a huge percent anyway. My dad always said he wouldn't hire anyone who salted their food before they tasted it 
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 2:51 am
No, it's not a huge percent. I'm just curious as to what everyone has to say about the practice. I guess I'm more into the 'can you do the job or not' and 'are you qualified or not' than the niceties. After all, this is business we're talking about, not patty cake and tea parties. Maybe I'm looking for something to convince me it has value but all I see so far is it's a way to suck up and I have issues with 'suck ups'. Oh, let's face it. I just have issues.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 3:34 am
Do men write thank you letters for an interview or is it just a woman thing?
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 6:04 am
chiliwilli, most folks around here write thank-you letters after the interview. the purpose is to recap the points they made that show how they fit the job description and what the interviewer asked them about. it also gives them the opportunity to add anything they may have forgotten to mention in the interview. and, we get them from both men and women. most men use email though instead of snail mail. we consider it bad etiquette for a candidate not to send a thank-you letter. BUT i don't hold it against them if when it comes to actually hiring the best candidate for the job. i always send a thank-you letter. and, it has been done around the South for at least 20 years or more now. so, it isn't something new here.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 6:37 am
Men do it too. Seems to me that it is and has been standard practice at least as long as I have been out of college.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 6:47 am
chili: both men and women write thank you letters.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 6:50 am
Chili, I wrote thank you notes way back in 1980 when I was interviewing for my first job right out of college.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 7:14 am
I always wrote thank you notes. To me it was polite and served as a gentle nudge and reminder that I was genuinely interested in the position.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 7:17 am
Exactly, Jimmer. It was/is a great way to remind them you want the job!
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 7:21 am
oh, and i have never had anyone bring a thank-you letter to an interview. that would be really weird. reading back through some of the posts, as a hiring manager, i agree with seamonkey in that it shows you follow through with things and are truly interested in the job. the letters that read like suck-up letters are just that and i frown upon them.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 7:46 am
<Would never ever suck up to CND>
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 7:56 am
thank goodness! LOL
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 8:12 am
oh yes you would scooter! SUCK UP! <running for coffee, cuz i know i'm gonna need it to keep up with scooter today!
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 8:19 am
Landi...I'm alot of things but suck up is not one of them....it's just not in me...my big mouth and sarcastic sense of humor might have something to do with it!!<running to get last cup of coffee so Landi has to make more>
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 8:20 am
glad i don't drink coffee! LOL
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 10:13 am
scooter, you're gonna have to do alot of running to keep up with me. i AM queen of the smart asses. says so in my bio! oh and btw, coffee is always on at my house!
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