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Re: Interview Etiquette (was The Interview from Hell!)
Subject:Re: Interview Etiquette (was The Interview from Hell!) From:Marci Abels <mabels -at- SKYJACKINC -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 2 Jun 1999 08:16:28 -0500
Ah, but then there is the company that sent me a TNT letter three weeks after the interview. A form letter, and it was a photocopy, even to the signature at the end. Then they sent me the same letter the following month, and the month after that, just in case I didn't get the drift.
I definitely do not think thank you letters are passe--I always send
them.
Notice that I wrote "I sent the customary thank you letter." The
interviewer never sent the customary "thanks but no thanks" letter. In
fact, she wouldn't even return phone calls.
I think it's awful that only one of 12 people you interviewed sent a
thank you letter. I hope you didn't follow their lame example. I believe
that courtesy goes both ways.
