One of my sales candidates had a great interview, and was following my advice to send a thank you note to the hiring manager as quickly as possible. BUT, she sent the thank you note on her iphone, and made a mistake. She realized after she sent the note that she had misspelled a word, and she was devastated. That's almost as bad as misspelling a word on your resume.

spell-check your job interview thank you notes

So, as her recruiter, I told her to go back to her computer and send another note:

"In my excitement over the job, I wanted to send you a thank you note as soon as possible. However, I realized that I misspelled ________. I'm embarrassed. It's just not like me to make a mistake like that." And so on. She ended the note with something positive, and the interview process went on. (In another situation, that would have ended her as a candidate for that job.)

The moral of the story: Be enthusiastic, send your thank you notes quickly, but take a breath and spell-check it before you send it. And maybe type it instead of texting it.

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