hey everybody Don Georgevich here
with Job Interview Tools and today I want to
talk to you about the critical elements
that need to be in your follow-up letter
or your thank-you letter the letter that
you send to an employer after you've had
an interview with them so if you want to
know more about that go ahead subscribe
to my channel like this video
and we'll dive right in so for starters I
received a letter from one of my
subscribers and she wrote in she's like
hey Don I had an interview and I know
you said it's really important to go
ahead and send a follow-up letter but in
my interview I called the hiring manager
by the wrong name should I apologize in
my thank-you letter now it's a really
good question
so before I answer that let's talk about
what should be in a thank-you letter now
thank-you letter is just something that
you send to an employer after you've had
an interview their thank-you letters or
follow-up letters call them whatever you
want but it's a letter that you send to
an employer that thanks them for their
time
so the important things that need to be
in there or first of all a thank you hey
mr. employer thank you very much for
meeting me and taught and discussing
this senior programming position yeah
something like that simple introduction
you're referencing the interview the
next thing you want to do is you want to
restate your qualifications say you know
I think you know because I'm a really
seasoned programmer I'd be really good
at this development job then you might
want to try to link back to the
interview something that you guys talked
about in the interview as a reference
point maybe you know they talked about a
certain project that they're working on
and you might say hey you know about
that project you know I think you know I
have some really good ideas for your on
how you can solve it you know whatever
something to tie your your conversation
your letter back to the interview what
that does is that makes them remember
you more then you're gonna wrap your
letter up and you're gonna simply say
you know you know based on my experience
my qualifications yeah I think it'd be
really good at this you know sincerely
yeah down Georgia Ridge that's all it
needs to be in your thank-you letter
it's simple it's short it's sweet you
don't want to write a whole big long
paragraph because they're not going to
read it you want your letter to get read
and hiring managers are busy people so
if you sign up a big felt long letter
there and really just they're just gonna
skim through it but if you send them a
very specific letter you fact them for
their time you cite something in the
interview that makes them remember you a
project or whatever and then you restate
your experience and you know you say hey
I'm looking forward to hearing from you
that's what needs to be in there now if
you noticed nothing in there says about
anything about making an apology so back
to what I said earlier when I received a
subscriber comment saying hey Don you
know uh I called the manager by the
wrong name should I say I'm sorry in the
letter I say absolutely not
I mean I'm sure that when she called him
by the wrong name in the interview that
she said oh I'm sorry about that I
didn't mean that
enough said or even even if she did and
even if she was just calling him Joe and
his name was Tom throughout the whole
interview you know I would not bring
that kind of a thing up in a thank-you
letter because if you think about it I
mean all you're really doing is calling
attention to a mistake that you made and
when you're trying to get a job I think
the last thing that you want to do is to
call attention to all of your mistakes
it just doesn't make any sense you want
to focus on the positive not the
negative I mean sure you know it's
polite you know to say I'm sorry and
stuff but in the thank-you letter I
don't think that's the place at all now
so what other kind of things can you say
in a thank-you letter
nothing that's negative nothing that
where you're apologizing for yourself
you're apologizing for your inability
you're apologizing for a lack of nothing
a thank you letter is very very positive
all the way through and like I said it's
just a simple you know thank you for
your time here's my experience I'm
really good at this bla bla bla I look
forward to seeing you or meeting you
again or you know discussing this
position with you you know whatever you
want to say so now let's to drill into
that a little bit more you know exactly
what do you say well I tell you I have a
whole book on that and it's called it's
called perfect thank you letters this
book has over a hundred different
letters in it but before you yeah before
you go ahead and buy this book
you think it's right for you I actually
have a thank you letter template I have
three of my best thank-you letters that
you can download for free so you have to
buy the book unless you know you'll
unless you like the three letters and
you want more like hey this is good
stuff I want more letters that's fine so
what I'm gonna do is I'm going to put a
link in this video right below that's
that you can click on where you actually
you won't be able to click on the link
in the video but just follow the link
it'll take you to a page where you can
download three of my best thank you
letter so you can read them through and
you'll see that there's nothing in there
where we talk about you know apologizing
it's all very very positive stuff and
it's positive stuff to get your employer
to remember you cuz you know remember
when you're in a job interview on your
interviewing they might be interviewing
ten of the people or more so when you
follow up after the interview you want
to separate yourself from that
competition you want to make a
connection with that hiring manager and
a thank-you letter is a great
opportunity to do that if you don't send
it you know you're probably going to be
forgotten and I'll take I'll tell you
this yeah sometimes hiring managers
forget they lose the your resume they
lose your contact information and like
oh you know I really like that Don guy
but I can't remember I lost his resume I
can't remember his name
so poof you just instantly you know fall
out of out of all thought so
thank you letter is a way to remind your
employer that you are still interested
in the position and that you know you
want to talk to them more about it
because I mean if you think about it
oftentimes you might go in for an
interview and let's say you're the first
candidate and let's say after 30 days
you know the employer has gotten through
all of their other interviews they might
have forgot about you they might even
think that you're not interested anymore
because well a month has gone by and
you're such an awesome person that you
probably already got another job or
maybe in the interview that maybe they
did feel
you were all that interested in the
position a thank you letter is the
beautiful brilliant and just subtle way
to remind an employer that hey I'm still
interested and and I like that job I
like what you guys are doing and I'd
like to participate in those projects
and I'm really attracted to where your
company is going and I want to be a part
of that I want to be a part of your
vision I want to be a part of your
journey so that's what a thank-you
letter does it's a gentle reminder that
you're still interested you want to work
there and you know forget all those
other people they probably don't really
want the job as bad as you do and that's
what that's that thank-you letter does
it just it's that way of self-expression
to just take that one extra step
communicate your your inner desire that
that you want this job and you want it
bad and you can do it better than anyone
else and it's okay to be personal you
know thank you letter you don't it
doesn't have to be real business E and
you know just state facts after and put
bullet points dumped with bullet points
so you think better uh-huh but you don't
want to you know you don't want to have
a bullet pointed style thank-you letter
that's just drilling in point after
point after point you should hire me
because you should hire me because now
thank you letter is ass much softer
approach I mean you just kind of reach
an out you're saying hey I'm still
interested like to work here that's all
so like I said I'm gonna put a link to
the you know the template the three
three thank you letter template below
this video and go ahead and click on
that download Lewis letters and just
take a look at him get a feel for you
know how they're written how they're
worded and then adapt them to to your
own situation and you will have the
perfect thank you letter so I got for
you today good luck on your next
interview and I will see you in the next
video
bye now