The Number One Mistake People I Interview Are Making These Days

What #$%$ !!! How many job interviews have I had where you NEVER hear from the company again !

Wow....you're saying that if the perfect candidate came along, you would just overlook them and give the job to someone else simply because you didn't get a "thank you email." That's ridiculous. It's not a big deal. If you say thank you after the interview, isn't that doing the same thing, except in verbal rather than written form? Things are changing. Nowadays college students get dozens of emails per week from their university, so they might assume a potential employer could feel the same way, and not want to get Spammed by applicants. The cleaner my inbox is, the happier I am.

Recruiters have only themselves to blame for this.

For many years I've seen job seekers putting in their time, effort and expense in interviews only to never be afforded even the common courtesy of being told they didn't get the job. Don't like it so much when the shoe is on the other foot, do you?

Of those you don't hire, how many do you send a "thank you for your time" rejection letter? I'll bet not many, if any. Remember this: many times the only reason you're on that side of the interview desk is pure dumb luck. You're no better than the person you're interviewing, just a little more fortunate, regardless what you may think or feel.

You want respect and consideration, you have to give it to get it. Period.

Thank you for your article. It was a lazy read that didn't teach much of anything. All the other articles are much better suited for me...

Here's an interviewer saying he wants a followup email. I remember being trained to make followup phone calls after the interview. My last round of job hunting, prospective employers would go "Why are you calling me?" That was before most of them had emails. Today it would be "Why do you want my email address?"

have you though about going to wok for yahoo they need some help

I don't see the need for a thank-you note. I think thanking the interviewer for his/her time in person is enough. I feel like contacting them afterwards would just be annoying to them.