Email Your Interviewer

Job seekers now have a new weapon against folks who interview them but who don’t return their e-mails or calls:

Tired of being ignored and wondering if any of your follow-ups got heard? Wonder no more…or at least send one last message!

E-mail your Interviewer

Rules of Engagement:

* It’s been four or more weeks since your interview, or at least two weeks longer than the time frame in which you were told they’d get back to you.

and

* You have followed up and not heard anything back for at least two weeks.

and

* You have read and followed this article on how to follow up properly.

If you’re still being ignored? It’s letter time.

I’m of the opinion everyone deserves a response from someone if you don’t hire them. Here’s my guidelines:

If someone didn’t make it past the initial screening, I don’t know about it, so HR handles it with a form letter or e-mail (depending how the candidate contacted us).

If someone is not a finalist for the position, but they were not qualified to do the job, I have HR send a form letter or e-mail (depending how the candidate contacted us).

If someone is not a finalist for the position, but they were qualified to do the job, I let HR send a little more personal letter to them and invite them to contact us again in the future.

If someone is a finalist, I offer my business card and invite them to follow-up with me if they don’t hear back from HR in a set number of days (HR does the scheduling as I am in meetings most of the day).Everyone gets followed-up with. It’s the courteous thing to do.

Questions to ponder:
What does your company do?

What has your experience been with follow-ups?

What do you believe is the courteous thing to do?

Eva is writing courtesy of Pingu_1963

Comments

By Darlene McDaniel

Hi Phil,

Interesting post. Emailing your interviewer is great advice to any job seeker. Unfortunately, many hiring managers who don’t want to respond to job seekers will ignore the email. I definitely see the email as an option for follow-up, but I believe the phone call is the best approach for job seekers who want a response from hiring managers. Not that hiring managers can’t ignore the call or just not call back, but I think people still respond better to call than email, especially of they are not going to offer the job. It may sound strange, but I believe the delete button is easy to click than not responding to phone calls. Your thoughts?

By the way, you get a prize for ensuring that job seekers get some response from your organization. I do believe that some organizations, many organizations completely ignore job seekers today, much more than they use to. Kudos!

Darlene