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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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From: techwr-l-bounces+ethomas=ftdi -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+ethomas=ftdi -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of
Gene Kim-Eng
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 3:53 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Interviewing Strategies
This may be an indication of my advancing years, but to me the thank-you
note is such a default part of the interviewing process that as a candidate
I do it pretty much on autopilot. As a hiring manager I notice them mostly
by their absence.
Gene Kim-
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From: "Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
> Good one......I forgot all about the Thank You note.
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