Re: Interviewing Strategies

Subject: Re: Interviewing Strategies
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:54:52 -0800

The "conventional thinking" advice to candidates is indeed to
send each interviewer a separate thank-you that revisits some
key point of your discussion with that person. At the very
least, I would think you'd want to do this for the person who
is going to be your boss.

I can only speak for myself on this point, but if I was one
of a panel of interviewers for a position I was not the hiring
manager for and I received a thank-you note from a candidate
that was addressed to multiple interviewers, I would not be
put off by it.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Thomas" <ethomas -at- ftdi -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 2:00 PM
Subject: RE: Interviewing Strategies


I agree with the thank you note, but having been on both sides of multiple
interviewer teams, I wonder whether the standard is to send individual thank
you notes? At one previous company, it seemed like for every writing
position, potential interviewees had to run the gauntlet with 4-6 mini
interviews consisting of 1-3 people in each one. Sending 4 thank you notes
is fine. Sending 15 seems excessive (but I think that speaks just as much to
the necessity of 15 people interviewing a technical writer over a 4 hour
period). Thoughts?

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