Thank you email after interview?

[Anonymous]

HR Director. Send the TY

Do you send thank-you letters to candidates for taking their time to interview with your company? If so, great. If not, then why do you expect candidates to thank the company? Employment is a mutually beneficial relationship (or should be), not a one-sided one where one party needs to thank the other but not vice-versa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

HR Director. Send the TY

Do you send thank-you letters to candidates for taking their time to interview with your company? If so, great. If not, then why do you expect candidates to thank the company? Employment is a mutually beneficial relationship (or should be), not a one-sided one where one party needs to thank the other but not vice-versa.

In my experience, writing a quick thank you note is an easy way to demonstrate social skills, which are beneficial for most positions at my company, and something that isn't necessarily visible in an application/resume.

So is it necessary? Of course not. But is it smart to write one anyway? Your call.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

In my experience, writing a quick thank you note is an easy way to demonstrate social skills, which are beneficial for most positions at my company, and something that isn't necessarily visible in an application/resume.

So is it necessary? Of course not. But is it smart to write one anyway? Your call.

Your experience with the average person must be very limited. Again, thank you notes can do more harm than good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

In my experience, writing a quick thank you note is an easy way to demonstrate social skills, which are beneficial for most positions at my company, and something that isn't necessarily visible in an application/resume.

So is it necessary? Of course not. But is it smart to write one anyway? Your call.

Your experience with the average person must be very limited. Again, thank you notes can do more harm than good.

Ha! We apparently hire above-average people, then.

[Anonymous]

So no one will actually say that a thank you note made them pick a candidate who would not otherwise have been chosen ... because they know that would be false. Thus, to reiterate, thank you notes are pointless except I guess to stroke the ego of some HR person.

Job searches are hard and time-consuming enough. We really should be honest with candidates about where their time should be spent ... and thank you notes aren't it.

[Anonymous]

I used to religiously send out hand written thank you notes after interviews when I was young and idealistic. Then I stopped after getting regularly ghosted by potential employers. If a potential employer can't even treat you with the respect and dignity to keep you updated on the status of your application after you've interviewed, they do not deserve even a minute of your time sending some worthless thank you note.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cannot help your chances, but a bad one can hurt your chances.

What is a bad thank you note?! Unless you flat out insult the interviewer, I cannot fathom what kind of note would hurt someone's candidacy.

I got one that seemed very lukewarm on the job. The other interviewers and I on the panel talked about it afterward - like does this person actually want it?

[Anonymous]

Not OP. If you don't have the hiring manager's email, but they sent you a linked in invite, can/should I just send the thank you through Linked In? Is that too casual?

[Anonymous]

I have an old fashioned boss (early to mid 50s) who expects a thank you email after an interview. I think the opposite of a few PPs - sending one can't hurt but it can help. Just proofread it like you do for everything else. If you lose a job because of a bad thank you email, you kind of deserve it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not OP. If you don't have the hiring manager's email, but they sent you a linked in invite, can/should I just send the thank you through Linked In? Is that too casual?

I have done this before. I sent the message on LinkedIn apologizing that I didn't have their email but saying thank you for taking the time to interview me. Very short, but it's the intent that people will care about.

[Anonymous]

I have an old fashioned boss (early to mid 50s) who expects a thank you email after an interview

Does he send a similar letter to candidates after interviewing them?

[Anonymous]

People who contend employers shouldn't be thanked for an interview because employers don't thank applicants just don't grasp the power structure of work. That's why it's called a job, not camp Kumbaya.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I have an old fashioned boss (early to mid 50s) who expects a thank you email after an interview

Does he send a similar letter to candidates after interviewing them?

Employers typically have hundreds of applicants per job. Can applicants typically say the same about interview opportunities?

If not, a thank you might be more beneficial to the applicant than the interviewer, unfair as that may seem to you.

[Anonymous]

Employers typically have hundreds of applicants per job. Can applicants typically say the same about interview opportunities?

Employers also have people who are paid to respond to applicants. Every job applicant deserves either an offer or a rejection letter, and I will die on this hill. When I have been in the position of hiring others, I have always stuck to this.

I did not send thank-you notes to interviewees specifically, but I did not expect them to do so, either. Presumably, one who believes that applicants should send them should also believe that prospective employers should do it as well.

People who contend employers shouldn't be thanked for an interview because employers don't thank applicants just don't grasp the power structure of work. That's why it's called a job, not camp Kumbaya.

I don't think that you understand that work is an exchange. I provide my labor in exchange for money. It is an equal relationship and not a one-sided one. Either party can end the relationship at any point, assuming at-will employment. Work is not a one-sided exchange, and neither are job interviews.

[Anonymous]

I do HR for a nonprofit and it absolutely matters. If all else is equal (and that sometimes does happen), the candidate that sent a brief, thoughtful thank you email wins every time.