to a career and life you'll truly enjoy. And in today's video I am going to be

sharing with you a few key tips on what to do after you've completed the

interview when it comes to following up with the employer

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on one I can give you details about that at the end of this video I get it you

get cold for interviews you get super excited you go on to the interview and

then you don't hear back or you're not sure what to expect next and it can be

frustrating especially when you don't know if you've been selected for the

next round and sometimes the one thing that you want to do is just simply send

them an email and ask them so when will I be hearing from you next but here's

the thing following up isn't necessarily going to

change their decision you don't want to be a pest and follow up so instead I'm

going to share with you my four guidelines when it comes to following up

and what you should do after the interview guideline number one know that

a follow-up email is actually unnecessary I don't know who made up the

role or belief that you have to follow up after an interview as the job

candidate because the truth is you don't recruiters hiring managers HR

professionals they're not sitting around waiting for your thank-you email in fact

if I was to be honest with you they could care less if they received a

generic thank you follow-up email from you you could say nothing meaning don't

send anything to them and they'll still feel the same way they did after they

received a generic thank you message from you so if you do want to send a

message to them then I'll talk about that in the next few steps but if not

then all the more power to you my friend because like I said I think you

follow-up email is unnecessary guideline number two know that you will eventually

hear back from the recruiter or HR person regardless of whether you sent a

thank-you note essentially you'll get your answer

if an employer really liked you and wanted you to move forward they will

either call you or they'll email you to let you know what the next steps are

whether it's to move to the next round or whether it's that they're offering

you the job and again the truth here is that if you had sent them a thank you

generic thank-you note to follow-up that wouldn't have really changed their

decision on whether they want to hire you or not because the way that they see

you at that point is all based on how you performed in the interview not based

on a little email that you had sent them after the interview so this guideline is

to re-emphasize the idea that you shouldn't place so much importance on

the thank you follow-up email because like I said if they like you you'll know

fairly quickly what the next steps are in the process guideline number three

when it comes to following up stop stressing about the thank-you note and

focus more on doing well in the interviews so many people go on

interviews and they leave the interviews completely wiping their memory of the

questions that were asked the questions that they struggled with answering and

not analyzing how they could have answered things differently and instead

ask me so when should I follow up instead of worrying about when you

should follow up you should probably better spend your time and energy on how

you performed in the interview with respect to the questions that they asked

you and where you could have improved where did you get stuck what questions

did they ask you that stumped you how can you do better next time I think

you're getting the drift here place less emphasis on following up and the

thank-you note because really the hiring manager has already made their decision

after they've met you from the interview they're not making their decision based

on an email they received after the interview already happened nothing's

going to change really at that point so with that you want a place less emphasis

on the thank you follow-up note and more emphasis on how can you improve your

interview skills for the next interview round in case you get called for that

guideline number four if you do you send a thank-you note make it

meaningful and impactful so now I know what you're thinking you're probably

saying to yourself Linda seems to be really against thank you notes and

follow-up notes it must be something that I really shouldn't do and that's

not the case I don't mean it that way what I mean is don't send a generic

thank-you note just don't if you're gonna send something make it meaningful

and make it impactful and here's how instead of just saying I really enjoyed

meeting with you I look forward to hearing next steps because that's just

going to get you thrown into the trash bin I would suggest that you instead

reiterate what you both discuss in the interview talk about the specific skills

or experiences that you bring to the organization that you know you'll be

able to contribute to the role and the position and from there talk about how

excited you are to be able to contribute your skills and experiences to the

projects assignments and to the team make your email specific and targeted it

should be highly customized to the employer and when they read it they

should be able to say that's right he or she does have the qualifications that

I'm looking for I personally believe that with everything in life if you're

going to do it you have to do it with a sense of purpose you have to know why

you're doing the thing that you're doing if you're just going to send a junky

random generic thank-you email better to probably not send it at all

and spend your time and energy doing something else that's more productive so

there you have it those are my four guidelines on how to follow up after an

interview now if you're someone who has been going on interviews for the last

little while you've been having not a lot of luck you haven't gotten the job

offer that you feel you deserve and you realize that you need one-on-one

professional guidance from me then feel free to reach out to me here on my

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