Thank you cards after interviews?
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I haven't been doing thank-yous. I usually have "thank you for taking the time to meet with me" in all of my interviews. Not sure that I need to reiterate afterward.
For about a decade, I used to carefully file all thank you letters in the applicant files. They never came up during selection committee meetings and they were all nice and tasteful. No one ever noted the lack of one. Then for the last few years, I open and read them for any particular content that may need noting or responding to, so I would file it if it needed to be, but there never was a reason. Now we have gone paperless, I haven’t quite taken to throwing them away without opening them, but I’m sure it wouldn’t change anything if I did. Maybe I’ll do that just once when no one is looking just to act out a tiny bit. Sometimes I enjoy reading them, but after 100 of them, they begin to seem like V-day cards in grammar school.
You can write cards if you want to, but don’t feel it is required.
You can write cards if you want to, but don’t feel it is required.
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Thanks for the advice. I try not to "BS" people so I won't send them just for the sake of doing it, but I think that I'll send a brief but nice email to most of my interviewers and the residents who showed up at dinner, because they seemed genuinely amiable to me.
Don't forget the glitter and some decorative handmade soaps.
Good thought. It's no more necessary now than it was in 2011.
Just go with how you're raised. If you're the sort to write thank you's, keep doing so through this process. If you're not, nothing requires that you start now.
Definitely no call for hard copy.
If you want to knock them off their socks use a real ink pen and put a wax seal on the envelope. Screw email. You get that last word in!
Or at least it will look good on its way to the recycle bin.
As long as it's the only one that looked good on the way to the recycle bin!
My preference is to receive nothing. If I get something, I prefer a card instead of an email, because I am not expected to respond to it. They have no real effect on your place on the rank list.
I've been sending a very short thank-you email to the program coordinator and each person who interviewed me. I figure an email is good because it's slightly easier to click "delete" than to drop a card into a recycle bin. 😀
Honestly, though, I feel like these programs have gone to a lot of trouble to put together these interview days and it's just nice to say thank you.
Honestly, though, I feel like these programs have gone to a lot of trouble to put together these interview days and it's just nice to say thank you.
So just to play devil's advocate:
When you're applying for a job, do you send thank-you cards to all of the people who interviewed you?
Turns out you are applying for a job. The people interviewing you (hopefully) get paid to interview you.
When you're applying for a job, do you send thank-you cards to all of the people who interviewed you?
Turns out you are applying for a job. The people interviewing you (hopefully) get paid to interview you.
