Do We Care Too Much About Thank-you Notes From Job Candidates?
A reader writes:
I manage HR for a small company. Since I started, I’ve been trying to update processes and bring a new perspective to people’s ideas about interviewing and hiring.
Hiring managers here are strangely obsessed with thank-you notes. A few times I’ve had people ask which candidates sent them versus which didn’t. I’ve gently explained that we shouldn’t put too much importance on them because of people’s varying experience with job search education.
Is it okay, when I’m scheduling interviews, to just encourage the candidate to send a thank-you note? I’m not usually in the business of priming candidates in this way, and I’m sure a good candidate would still make it through to the next round without one. However, I don’t want anyone to be docked for this silly thing. I also don’t want to come across as infantilizing to the people who would send one automatically.
I answer this question — and two others — over at Inc. today, where I’m revisiting letters that have been buried in the archives here from years ago (and sometimes updating/expanding my answers to them). You can read it here.
Other questions I’m answering there today include:
- Board member is an overly enthusiastic social media sharer
- Interviewing people on a rolling basis vs. waiting for an application deadline
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