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Re: Possible Career Change- Need advice
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Just have your resume reflect anticipation BA graduation date of Jan 2019 or whatever.
Try LinkedIn and Indeed. Brush up on interview skills! If you interview send a thank you email within 24hrs. If someone doesn’t email thank me I won’t hire them.
Is there a specific reason why? I’m just curious, I just interviewed (hopefully my final one!) for a job. I sent a thank you within 24 hours, I know it’s important, but how come you require it?
I used to handle the hiring for my dept and anyone who didn't send a thank you was an automatic rejection. It re-iterates interest, shows the candidate was paying attention, and its just the polite thing to do. No thank you, no job.
Every interviewer has their "thing," but the thank you email is pretty universal.
ETA: OP, I agree about hospitals/doctor's offices.
Question about thank yous....If you send a traditional thank you letter, via snail mail, you would not be in receipt of it within 24 hours. Is and email sufficient as a thank you?
Totally not snarky but I have never heard of sending snail mail thank you letters. In all my years of working and assisting in hiring for my boss I have never once recieved a handwritten thank you. Email is expected and I think my boss would laugh if someone sent a snail mail letter.
Kind of not the same, but this reminds me of something. We had one of our Business Development Executives go with a sales rep to a customer and pitch our services.
It was this sales rep's account and he brought her in to talk about our specific line of business.
He encouraged her after the meeting to send a hand written note thanking the customer for their time, etc.
She rolled her eyes about it (she's in her 20's and the customer is probaby in his 50s) but she did it anyway at the advice of the sales rep.
Well the customer was so impressed by the hand written note that he was talking about it for weeks. He felt it was so much more personal than an email, etc.
To this day we joke about it with her.
So sometimes, it depends on your audience.
I get hand written thank you cards from reps fairly often. It's not something that the new professionals usually do though.
I was only speaking ancedotally and I'm sure people do it - I have just never seen it, and I know my boss, he is a C-level exec and this would not fly, he would toss it in the garbage. He is email/text/skype only 10000000000%.
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Re: Possible Career Change- Need advice
Posted by LuckyStar
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Posted by TwinMommyToBoys
Posted by Leb
Just have your resume reflect anticipation BA graduation date of Jan 2019 or whatever.
Try LinkedIn and Indeed. Brush up on interview skills! If you interview send a thank you email within 24hrs. If someone doesn’t email thank me I won’t hire them.
Is there a specific reason why? I’m just curious, I just interviewed (hopefully my final one!) for a job. I sent a thank you within 24 hours, I know it’s important, but how come you require it?
I used to handle the hiring for my dept and anyone who didn't send a thank you was an automatic rejection. It re-iterates interest, shows the candidate was paying attention, and its just the polite thing to do. No thank you, no job.
Every interviewer has their "thing," but the thank you email is pretty universal.
ETA: OP, I agree about hospitals/doctor's offices.
Question about thank yous....If you send a traditional thank you letter, via snail mail, you would not be in receipt of it within 24 hours. Is and email sufficient as a thank you?
Totally not snarky but I have never heard of sending snail mail thank you letters. In all my years of working and assisting in hiring for my boss I have never once recieved a handwritten thank you. Email is expected and I think my boss would laugh if someone sent a snail mail letter.
I find this very off putting because there are still a lot of people who do not use email. Granted they may be older than 30, but right now I can think of at least 15 people I personally know who do not know how to email.
I do hiring and hate contact after an interview. If I want you, I will call you. Leave me alone.
I guess it depends on the industry but it is 2018 and the vast majority of jobs would expect someone to be capable of sending an email.
Maybe I’m showing my millennial-ism but I don’t even know how someone would apply for a job without the internet. Where would you find a job posting?
Yeah even my dad who is in his 70's and retired uses email.
I feel like you kind of have to if you are looking to get a job no?
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Re: Possible Career Change- Need advice
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To continue the thanks yous. Is this new I havent interviewed for a job in 14 years   and granted I didn't have many but I never even heard about thank yous.
I entered the workforce in 2009 and thank you’s were absolutely expected back then.
I got my first job in publishing in 2001 and sent a thank you. granted it was hand written and mailed, but thank you's were still expected then too. my husband is looking for a job now and always sends an email thank you after an interview.
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Re: Possible Career Change- Need advice
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To continue the thanks yous. Is this new I havent interviewed for a job in 14 years and granted I didn't have many but I never even heard about thank yous.
I agree, I've never heard of this.
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Mrs213
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Re: Possible Career Change- Need advice
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To continue the thanks yous. Is this new I havent interviewed for a job in 14 years and granted I didn't have many but I never even heard about thank yous.
I agree, I've never heard of this.
ETA - had been on multiple interviews where I didn't even have the interviewer' s email address
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dlj97
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Re: Possible Career Change- Need advice
Posted by MST9106
Go for an executive admin position in a large corporation near your house. They make good $$. Then go back to school and finish up your degree.
I second this!
And on the thank you debate, you can't go wrong sending a short email thanking someone for their time, whereas not sending may be looked at negatively.
Good luck!
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olive98
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Possible Career Change- Need advice
You all must be really young if you never heard of mailed thank you! No one emailed thank yous 20 years ago lol. I can see how this wouldn't be popular now because of the time it would take.
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