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the oval officeour office”While this person definitely sounds like a giant douche, it is in fact best practice to send a thank you email after an interview.
Yeah, it’s unfortunately good advice. Hearing it from a hiring manager in a “dance my puppet” way just makes me want to vomit though.
The asshat in OP’s image isn’t representational of people who hire people in the average, every-day world.
In reality, most hiring is done by mid-level managers who have to interview dozens of people a week on top of doing their own work, and it’s tiring and you don’t get paid extra for it, and if you pick the wrong candidate your own ass is canned.
Yah, it really does help your chances if you show even a shred of actual desire to work there.
Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, I wouldn’t want to work for anyone who expects one and I’m glad that me not sending one cements that. I also don’t do cover letters. A resume is already a summary of the exact information you’re asking for in the application (and going to make me repeat as if you never had a chance to see it beforehand in the interview); a cover letter is just another step, summarizing the resume. If you can’t take the time to even look through my resume, don’t bother, you’re probably too “high speed” for me in your “fast paced work environment” and I’m not looking to “wear multiple hats” to earn your paycheck for you.
This. It’s time consuming and it sucks, but it makes you stand out. Job hunting is truly half skills, half theatrics after all
Lol half? I’d say about a 20-80 split.
Throw in an extra 30-50% of networking/connections.
To increase your chances send an additional email offering to wash your interviewer car for free. /s
Just no.
Say ‘thank you for your time’ when leaving the interview.
LOL fuck that. We each shared our precious time. I will thank you for yours at the end of each session.
Actually, this did remind me of the time that a recruiter gave me a thank-you gift at the end of an interview. He was very respectful of my time.
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The idea that the person who gets nothing from an interview should be thankful for the opportunity is utterly brain dead.
The other perspective is that after digging through literally hundreds or thousands of applications, I picked you and we both took a huge chunk out of our day to try to connect. Did you like the interview? Did you have questions after? Did I do a good job explaining the role? There’s so much left unsaid after an interview that it does help to give a hiring manager closure, particularly if they have to interview a dozen other people that day. You’re not dancing for my enjoyment, you’re showing you care more than the 11 other people who shrugged and wandered off after without thinking about it. And the hundreds more in the following week or weeks.
FFS what’s your colon smell like from the inside?
The interviewee is getting an opportunity. There’s a clear imbalance of power, but it’s not wholly exploitative.
That being said, I do remind my interviewees to not worry about my time during the interview, because I’m getting paid to be there, and it’s more fun than a meeting.
The interviewee is getting an opportunity.
Yes, thank your masters for considering you for further exploitation
This is normal
This is good
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You know, you don’t HAVE to get a job.
Do you have a good relationship with your parents?
Do you have any older, wealthier people in your neighborhood who expressed that you’re attractive?
Do you or your family have paid-off land that can be worked for sustenance?
There are TONS of options other than working!
I’ve hired (low) dozens of people in public sector environments, and neither myself nor anyone on my hiring panels has ever cared if we receive a post-interview thank you. Maybe private sector is different, but I’d just as soon not have you clog up my inbox with thanks or make a post-interview pitch about your skills/excitement.
If you say thanks in the room, we’re square. Likewise, I always thank people for their interest and time in the role.
I don’t think I’ve ever gotten the hiring manager’s email address on any of the interviews I’ve done throughout my career, as communication is usually with the HR recruiter for the entire hiring process.
Grovel at their feet from the beginning to show they can walk all over you in the future.
It’s so weird tbh. It’s a mutual need, they want people I want a job — why don’t I ever get an email thanking me for my time?
if a thank you email is the difference between being hired and not, you are a cog
keep your resume up to date
Thank you for this post. I’m wearing a suit btw.
I also got a hint: pass the bar exam.
Real answer: I usually say thank you in person at the end of the interview. Like “Thank you for your time.” Sending an email restating that would be wasting their time, no?
as someone who hires people, yes, it would
I guess you just got to know your audience
I won’t mark you down for it but I won’t even bother responding and it won’t influence my decision either way
Nah, these people stir air for a living. They appreciate others who also know how to stir air. Sending a pointless time wasting email is the epitome of this discipline. If you want in, you need to show them you can do it too. If you want to be an actual productive member of society, you wont do it and find a position where you don’t have to resort to such menial tasks.
You can always respond like.
“Hello,
As we discussed earlier today, you will be giving me an employee contract for $XXX,XXX
Best regards. “
Then CC as many people as possible.
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That’s how these people work, right?
Feed him to the orphan crushing machine
Dear Assface,
I’m writing to thank you. Not for the interview. For making a stupid post on a job site that you treat as social media. You are clearly deranged. I know that I don’t want to work for you or with you or anywhere near you. Thank you for making that clear to me. Suck a fuck.
Best, some_guy
Dear some_guy I would like to set up a second interview for you to explain how does one “suck a fuck”. This has piqued my interest and would like to discuss in person. Let me know your earliest available time.
I would think there’s very, very few interviews where the interviewee doesn’t verbally thank them both at the beginning and end of the interview. Needing more than that is just narcissism.
You would be astonished how many people interview who have no fucking business trying to work at said establishment.
You would also be shocked how many people are just giant assholes because they perceive the hiring manager as “authority” instead of just someone else trying to do their job who has to meet hundreds of people and make a decision that their own job is riding on.
Some people have such a strong aversion to work or having a job or a boss at all that they are rude, hostile or uninterested in the interview process. I’ve had people call in to interviews while at drive-throughs. One called in from in bed, half awake. Another in-person was drunk/high and stumbled out while ranting about “the man” and conspiracy shit.
Look guys, if you want a job, you have to understand it’s a competition. It’s not even the hardest competition you’ll ever take part in, but if you put in a LITTLE effort, you can get a job and pay for your shit. Everyone just wants to pay for their shit, including the poor schlub trying to hire for their company.
I actually think it’s a good, no GREAT system. Because I would never do that and I wouldn’t want to work for anyone who expects it.
Sorry, don’t agree with this one. A simple “thank you” has been good job seeking advice for a long time. I’ve specifically gotten a job because I sent in a written thank you. Though that’s more practical for local businesses rather than remote jobs that I seek these days.
It is good advice for a job seeker, mainly because so many hiring managers are lunatics.
It’s gatekeeping. Like knowing the difference between a salad fork and a dinner fork, sending a thank you letter doesn’t demonstrate that one cares about the job, it demonstrates that at some point you were coached to send thank you letters after an interview. It weeds out qualified candidates who didn’t receive that coaching due to culture, class, etc.
To me, it demonstrates that you value wasting time.
Saying thank you when saying goodbye after the interview? Perfectly fine and proper, that’s social lube. Sending an email to the candidate explaining why they didn’t get the job? Good fucking mores. Sending a thank you email with no actual content? Why the fuck am I reading this?
I can understand not explaining why someone didn’t get the job. If it’s worded imperfectly, it could open the company up to a lawsuit. And the applicant can’t believe that the company would answer honestly anyways.
Then literally say it after the interview, why the fuck are you going to wait, go home, and then write an email saying thank you? Dumbest and most cringe shit I ever heard, yikes
These are the same people who expected handwritten letters a generation ago.
Thank you email? Do employers make house visits or take you out for dinner when interviewing in the US?
It is as far as I know that is the case.
It is cultural dependent. In South Korea and Japan, you are expected to go for drinks with your boss.
Typically you aren’t going out with a company for a primary interview unless they really wanted you
Not these days. In contemporary Japan at many companies, expecting employees to go for drinks with the boss is a kind of specifically noted harassment.
It’s been largely phased out in Korea as well.
Just read some of his other posts. Every one is the same, what a horrible person.
Is this a cultural thing? I have never sent any thank you e-mail just to say thank you after an interview. Only if we agreed that I should send them some more information after an interview I’d start this mail by saying ‘Thank you for the interview. As discussed, bla bla bla…’.
I was taught they were essential and just a part of the process, PNW USA.
I’ve never sent a thank you email for an interview. It seems weird to me.
— successful engineer, Los Angeles
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