Sending a thank you letter or thank you email to a hiring manager is a great way to follow up after an interview to reiterate your interest in a job.

Its also a great way to help keep you top of mind in the eyes of the hiring manager. This can be especially important if the hiring manager is interviewing numerous people.

Trust me, after interviewing several people, even hiring managers with great memories start getting candidates mixed up with one another so anything you can do to keep yourself top of mind can be a big benefit to you.

Before sending a thank you letter or thank you email, keep a few things in mind:

1. Keep the note brief. A quick note thanking the hiring manager for their time while reiterating your desire for the job should suffice. Chances are that youll be given a business card of the person you met with and if thats the case, sending a thank you email should be fine. Email is a perfectly acceptable form of communication for this thank you note. If you met with more than one person, Id suggest emailing each person separately, not as a group.

2. Make absolute sure there are no grammatical or spelling errors. Nothing can hurt your chances for a job and defeat the goodwill generated by sending a thank you note than when you send a note that has typos or other errors. Make sure you spell everyones names correctly, too!

3. Make sure you send the thank you letter or thank you email quickly. Dont wait for a week to send the thank you note. This is especially true if you decide to send a thank you letter and put it in the mail since it may not get received for several days. Try to send it the same day you attend the interview even if youre sending a thank you email which obviously gets delivered a lot quicker. You dont necessarily have to send a thank you note after every interview with the same company. Sending a thank you note after the first interview should be fine.

In this case, you might simply thank them for their consideration and to ask that they keep you in mind for future positions.

Ive seen instances where a candidate who wasnt chosen for a job ends up getting hired months later because the person that was hired didnt work out. In this case, the candidate left a good impression with the hiring manager and got a second chance. Sending a brief thank you note can certainly help to leave a good impression with the hiring manager.

Carl Mueller

My name is Carl Mueller and I'd like to thank you for learning a bit more about me!

I feel that I have numerous relevant experiences during my career that come in useful when helping people with their careers:

I know what it?s like to work internationally, having worked overseas (in New Zealand, from 1994-1998).

I've survived several corporate downsizings while many of my colleagues were being laid off.

I have also experienced being laid off twice myself during corporate downsizings.

I know what it?s like to be self-employed.

I've helped many people find better jobs. I started to work as a professional recruiter in 2000 first as an Information Technology (IT) recruiter and then in general recruitment across many industries including IT, manufacturing and marketing. Since this time, I have helped many people find their dream career and it?s a great feeling.

I experienced one of the slowest hiring periods in recent memory especially during the general hiring slowdown that followed the Y2K frenzy in 1999, the bursting of the dot com bubble in early 2000, and then the employment market bottoming out following September 11, 2001.

These were certainly not great times to be a job searcher in most industries nor was it a particularly good time to be a recruiter.

Following this, I began running the day to day operations of an Internet-based company in early 2003 that focused on developing online software and subscription-based websites for consumers. It was then that I fully realized the power, usefulness and potential of the Internet which really spurred me to set up my own website which you can view in my Personal URL section below this bio.

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Good luck with your career and I hope I have been of assistance to you!