This is not a personal letter – professional business letter and you want to show that. Though you’re bringing up some personal things, your tone, overall, should be professional. If you can tie those into your letter, that’s going to make for a stronger connection with your interview. It’s a good idea to reference personal things that came up in the interview maybe some personal common interests. You want to refer to things that you spoke about in the interview especially your qualifications and how you will fulfill the needs of the company. So, what actually goes in a ‘Thank you’ letter? The content of your letter should be direct and specific. You basically just take the body of the e-mail letter and stick it in a formal letter and then put all the extra stuff around it that goes in a formal business letter. Maybe you want to send a formal letter and that’s fine. For the purpose of this video, I’m going to focus on just sending an email ‘Thank you’ letter because it’s faster, it’s simpler, it’s easier and it’s the most common. I will show you how to do it in a minute.Īnd the strategy works great if you’re emailing or if you’re sending a formal letter. Otherwise, if you just go on into your interview and then you come home and you decide to write the letter, it’s going to take you longer, it’s going to be more awkward. And then when you get home, you can make a couple of tweaks to it and then you can send it. So, before you even go on the interview, write your letter the way you think you want to write it at least you’ll have it ready. But I would encourage you to write your letter ahead of time. Now, what I would encourage you to do is to write your letter and I’m going to show you how to write it later in this video. That’s what a ‘Thank you’ letter is going to allow you to do. You’re showing enthusiasm that you want this job. This is something that I want to be doing”. I really liked everything you talked about in the interview. So, if you can help make your prospective employer’s job easier by just raising your hand and saying, “Hey, thank you for the interview. But the employer doesn’t really know which ones those are and that’s why they have these interview processes. So, there’s only going to be a small handful of people that really want it. It’s possible, but it’s unlikely.īut what a ‘Thank you’ letter is going to do for you it’s going to increase your chances for the job and it does this by reminding your employer that you’re still interested and excited for the job.īecause think about it from an employer standpoint they interviewed 20 candidates and of all those candidates, not all of them are going to want the job it’s just not.
Now, if you completely bombed your interview, it’s unlikely a ‘Thank you’ letter is going to help you fix that. You said something you didn’t really mean to say and you didn’t get a chance to correct yourself or maybe you got home and you’re like, “Oh, no. This is something that I can do”.Ī ‘Thank you’ letter also gives you an opportunity to fix an interview that maybe you messed up or you botched. Let’s say there was a certain skill that you forgot to mention that you had and then the interview is over, so you can say that in a ‘Thank you’ letter and remind them or say, “Hey, I forgot about this. You don’t want to restate all of your skills – just one or two key skills that are relevant to the job.Ī ‘Thank you’ letter also gives you the opportunity to mention anything that you forgot or that you left out of the original interview. It allows you to highlight your strengths and your skills as they relate to the job.
It gives you an opportunity to demonstrate your professional manners and etiquette. It gives you an opportunity to show them that you are professional. The whole point of a ‘Thank you’ letter is to remind your interviewer that you’re still interested in the job and to keep an image of you fresh in their minds. If you had a job interview and it went well, I’m going to teach you how to send a ‘Thank you’ letter to your interviewer, so you can keep your name fresh in their minds and when it comes to the time to decide who gets the job, they’re probably going to think of you.
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