Recruitment etiquette

[Jobhuntings]

Had an interview yesterday, really enjoyed meeting the recruitment manager and the person who would be my manager.

I want to email now to say thank you for the interview, but DH says that's overkill.

It's not a high end job, just a part time factory type job just above minimum wage but the hours suit and the staff seemed lovely.

What do you think?

I’ve previously received emails from candidates following interviews and haven’t considered it overkill. It hasn’t changed the outcome of the interview but I do think positively of candidates that do it.

Depends entirely on the manager. The poster above likes it. I bloody hate it and think you are trying to manage upwards before you’ve even started.

use your sense from the interview. Are they like tolkiensfallow and likely to think positively about candidates or are they a miserable bitch like me.

if of course you don’t know, but think it would be a good idea to filter out bosses like me send the email anyway!!

Send the email. It’s not alway about the here and now, you might not get it. But people move, you may consider them again etc people will remember that sort of gesture. You could go as far as re-affirming your interest in the role. No problem at all. I’ve worked in HR for 20 years.

PS sending an email isn’t managing upwards. Odd to see it that way.

I can’t see how receiving such an email could be seen as managing upwards? When I’ve been hiring I’ve always thought fondly of those that send a short follow up email, and likewise I’ve always sent one when interviewing.

You met the people. I would go with your gut feeling over ours.

In my workplace it would be considered poor for the decision maker to take such an email into account, whether positively or negatively.

In sales there’s lots of strategies that people use in order to try and get results- things that range from repetitively using your name to foster a connection, insisting on face to face meetings rather than calls to get in the room.

I would assume that an email was from a “how to land your dream job” website and rather than being a genuine expression of thanks was a tactic being employed to make them seem proactive as well and putting me in a position where I might have to, engage in further dialogue directly making it harder for me to say no to that individual.

I might be wrong but I alway assume that this is a tactic people use- and am sure I can go away and find websites advising as such. Therefore it is an attempt to manage me (or manage upwards) And that’s why I don’t like it.