QUOTE(Zamorin1 @ Nov 15 2017, 04:46 AM)
If I were you, I would not send the thank you note.
As an interviewer, I am not interested in how polite you are or what. In fact, sending me a thank you note only tells me that you are pretty desperate. I mean I should be the one who is thanking you for making the special trip all the way to the company and risking not getting the job therefore making a fruitless trip. So if you are sending me a thank you note what does this tell me. That something went wrong in your current company and that you are desperate to leave. And also that you are not very capable and have to rely on a thank you note to gain my favor.
If you really want to impress your interviewer, you should maintain cool. In other words, let the interviewer know that you are interested in the position but then at the same time also give the interviewer the impression that not getting the job is not going to affect you in anyway. You should only try to impress the interviewer during the interview. What happens after the interview is that maybe you could probably clarify the wrong things that you perhaps said in the interview. But then you should not be agressively pushing the interviewer after that.
The only person you should sound desperate to is to your job agent. Leave the desperateness to your job agent. Be very subtle so as not to expose yourself. Between the person who send me the thank you note and the person who did not send me the thank you note, I would choose the person who did not send me the thank you note.
The purpose of the interview is to identify the best candidate. So you only need to woo the interviewer about what you can contribute. Other things would be just a waste of time and may even be detrimental. You do not want to leave a sour taste with the interviewer right?
Ok good notes there.
Just to add on to your not sending thank you note thing. I have the experience to hire and to interview potential candidates in previous and current company, to a scenario that i have 2 very strong candidates that is top of my list and gave me hard time to decide.
Those two top contender has got the balance competency and exact what we looking for. Moving forward, the offer has eventually give to the one who present himself better AFTER the interview- thank you note,right time to call, quick in answering our further doubts and answer perfectly!
Moral of the story? You decide...
That is apparent the reason i insist to send a quick thank you note within 24/48 hours after our chat.