Thank You Letters

Job seekers who have interviewed with a hiring manager, who feel good about the interview, and still wish to be considered for the position after the interview, should always send the hiring manager a thank you letter within 24 hours. In addition to the job seeker reiterating their gratitude for the interview, thank you letters are used to revisit information and details that the hiring manager shared about the job opening and their company. Doing so demonstrates to the hiring manager that the job seeker was attentive during the interview and understands the information and details that the hiring manager shared with them. Thank you letters also re-emphasize how the job seeker's qualifications align with that information and those details. 

Thank you letters can be typed directly into the body of an email or typed in a document, as pictured in the sample here, and attached to an email and sent to the hiring manager. 

For in-person interviews, job seekers should ask the hiring manager for their business card at the end of the interview, which should have their email address on it. 

For remote/virtual interviews, job seekers should check the calendar invitation for the hiring manager's email address. If their email address is not available, job seekers should type the thank you letter in a document, send the document to the recruiter, and ask the recruiter to forward the thank you letter to the hiring manager. 

In what are usually very crowed and competitive pools of candidates for job openings in today's times, where sometimes 10 or more candidates are interviewed for one job opening, thank you letters jog the hiring manager's memory about the job seeker's interview and can give the job seeker a competitive advantage in the candidate selection process.