Thank you email after interview?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Of course it's an exchange. But the reality is that it is not an equal exchange. And like it or not, the applicant needs the employer far more than most employers need the vast majority of their employees. Because they can be replaced at the drop of a hat.