After Interview Email/thank you note

marthyellen · Apr 30, 2011

I like to receive an email or note after an interview. I feel it shows professionalism.

RNBearColumbus, BSN · May 1, 2011

It should be more than just a thank you note or e-mail.

The note you send should also re-summarize your qualifications for the position, as well as express you're interest in the position. ( A note brings helps to bring you to the front of the line in the interviewers mind, especially if you were interviewed early in the search process.)

I always send them after an interview, and a couple of times, was told it was the deciding factor in my getting the job.

Nascar nurse, ASN, RN · May 1, 2011

As a hiring manager, I don't think it makes on bit of difference to me 95% of the time. As the saying goes..first impressions are everything and I probably decided whether or not to hire a candidate as soon as they left my office. I suppose the only time it may swing my decision is when I have two equally exceptional candidates and one position.

Curious, does it make any difference to you when you hire CCM?

CapeCodMermaid, RN · May 1, 2011

The notes don't make any difference to me. Usually I've made up my mind by the end of the interview if I'm going to offer the person a job. One time, though, I had decided to offer a job UNTIL I got the thank you note. There were so many spelling and grammatical errors in it, I wondered who had prepared the woman's resume'. And, for those of you who say spelling and grammar don't matter in nursing....I say.....if YOU are going to send me a thank you note, make sure you know it's grammatically correct. :coollook:

achot chavi · May 1, 2011

I think sending a thank you note riddled with mistakes (both is spelling and grammar) is a passive aggressive gesture. By not bothering to make sure that the note was written properly, the applicant is asking to be taken off the list! What kind of asset will she or he be to the facility?

It is just too easy to fix spelling and grammar today...I would have to wonder.

CapeCodMermaid, RN · May 1, 2011

It's not passive, just dumb or lazy. If you write your note by hand, there is no automatic spell check.

I had a vendor come into the building. He met with me, the ADON, and the Administrator. We all got thank you notes for our time with a wish we can do business together. I would have been impressed but for the fact that the hand writing belonged to his secretary or some other very young woman...there were circles instead of dots over the i's. It was worse than getting nothing!