Sounds desperate to me.
Fresh haircut & shave, make eye contact, and don’t look at your phone.
You’ve just beat 95% of Millennials...
Every job I ever had I was hired during the interview, but it has been over 35 years since I became self employed.
For that matter, nothing beats a hard copy sent via USPS.
Call me superstitious, but my habit has always been to sleep with heavy stock executive stationery so that the thank you note will be infused with my scent. These things get passed around the HR office and sooner or later work their magic.
Sadly, few companies notify a candidate that they were not selected. Candidates wait and wait but are rarely notified.
Does a thank-you email count?
Never sent a thank-you note, and never received or even expected one from any of the hundred of people I’ve interviewed. While I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with sending a note, I also don’t see the point. When I go for an interview, the person/company interviewing me isn’t doing me a favor. They’re simply trying to fill an open position within theiir organization, just as I’m trying to secure employment for mysef. I no more owe them a note than they owe one to me for coming in for the interview. A mutual verbal “thank you” at the end of the chat is more than adequate.
At ALL our interviews, anyone who even sends a thank you note to us, we respond. Even to those who wont get the job, we always thank them for coming in.
I knew a manager who only hired people who sent hand-written ones.
Showing Gratitude is a virtuous act, and people will notice
A place that let’s something as meaningless as a fake Thank You note decide if you are worthy to hire isn’t a place you want to work at anyhow.
Actually one time when hiring, we had 5 equal candidates for 2 positions, as the tie breaker I choose the two who didn’t send the Thank You notes. They worked out fine.
Don’t expect any potential employer to send you an acknowledgement of application or rejection notice these days. They cull data but rarely respond unless they are calling you in:
Every job I ever had, and there were only a few, I obtained because I had written a thank you note. I was told that every single time.
Nothing replaces good manners.
Utter waste of time, just keep looking, don’t waste your time doing stuff like writing a thank you job for an interview. They aren’t doing you a favor by interviewing you, give me a break.
You never know what the hiring manager may consider a deal-breaker.
But I do know what kind of person and organization I want to work with.
I choose not to deal with unwritten, deal-breaking HR rules.
Nope. I taught the opposite in 60+ Job Hunting classes.
At my request (I’m 72) the company I work for hired someone I could treat as a protégé. I’m sure that when he came in for interviews, he met with all sorts of people that had little to do with the hiring decision. I liked him. I have no idea whether he sent a thank you note or not. I’ve been working with him for three-quarters of a year now.
ML/NJ
Yup, stake your future on an unreliable transport mechanism.
What reaction would they have to a read receipt on that email?