Interview Follow Up Letter Can Swing You The Job Offer

An interview follow up letter is essential so when the interview is finally over, don't think that you need to do nothing more until you get the job offer. The letter itself can be little more than a personal 'Thank You' to the interviewer and as such may be fairly informal.

Otherwise, you might need to make it slightly more formal to allow you to explain something that you didn't make clear during your interview. See these 2 different versions Thank You Letters to see what I mean and you could copy one to use as your own interview follow up letter.

There are lots of additional things to think about to make sure you do everything to swing the job in your favor.

• At the end of the interview, inquire when the employer will be making the hiring decision.
• Consider the follow-up as a strategic part of your job search process. Following-up can give you an advantage over others who interviewed for the same position.
• Get the names and (correct) job titles of every person who interviewed you.
  
• Write individual thank you notes or an interview follow up letter to each person who interviewed you, the same day as your interview if possible. 
• Your 'thank-you' letters should be handwritten unless you need to add more interview follow up information that you missed during the interview.
  
• Let your referees know they may be approached with a phone call from the employer to ask about you.(And make sure they know what to say!)
  
• Keep up with your job-hunting activities and don't stop until you get a job offer that you wish to accept. 
• If you don't hear back when they said, follow-up with a telephone call to the employer. If no arrangement was made and you have not heard back within a week to ten days, you should call to find out the status of the hiring process.
  

An Effective Way To Follow Up After Interview

If you've ever endured a tough interview and managed to get through relatively scar free, then there is nothing worse than when you don't hear back from the employer...especially when it's for a job position that you really did have your dreams pinned on.

Many people simply leave their fate as it stands, but is has been known that people who effectively follow up after not hearing back after the interview, stand a better chance of being considered...

So, here's some advice on what to do during the job interview follow up.

The interview follow up phone call

In this day and age, emails often get overused and more importantly, lost in transit through spam folders etc, (or even worse intentionally deleted by an over worked HR assistant).The phone call puts you in direct contact with the employer and is easier to get an instant response.

The call should be made only when you have heard nothing back from your employer after a certain time period...but how long should you wait?

The answer is, as long as you've been told to. In other words, each employer has their own schedule and time frame for their entire interview process. Therefore it is important that you find out when you can expect a response, which can be asked at the end of the interview.

If it's 2 weeks, leave it 25 days.

If it's 4 weeks, leave it 31 days.

f it's 2 months, leave it 70 days.

Give them a chance to get back to you, but don't hang on longer than you need to.

These interview follow up actions are vital to the successful outcome of your interview, yet are subtle enough not to annoy the interviewer or hiring manager. Hopefully you will get the offer or at the very least be invited to a second interview.

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