Here’s a great resource for thank you note samples and templates!  Thank you notes are a great thing.  They can seem insignificant, especially if you feel that you knocked the interview out of the park, but they are important.  They give us one more chance to touch the hiring manager and make the case for hiring you.

One hiring manager called me a week after a phone interview with one of my candidates (BTW – we had been playing phone tag – that is a long time for some feedback).  The manager felt that the candidate was qualified but was reluctant to say that he wanted to move the candidate forward.  Then he asked if the candidate had talked with me after the interview and did the candidate ask for the hiring manager’s email address.  Yes, I had talked with the candidate and no - she had not asked for the email address.  Kiss of death.  That simple piece of information was the tipping point for him.  The candidate is a no go.  Why?  Probably, in this case it was only another data point.  But some managers feel it is a key piece of information.

Management of sales/marketing jobs often feel that if you don’t use all the tools to persuade them in your job search, you won’t use all of the tools you need to be successful in their position.  Don't give someone an excuse not to hire you.

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