Job Interview Follow-Up Letter

Hello and welcome to those searching the Internets for an example Job Interview Follow-Up Letter. Please be careful because you’re dreams may have just come true. You see, if you’re looking for an “example” of such a letter then you are also one of the numerous ones out there trying to get ahead without doing anything. And that’s great. That’s how careerism works. So, without further delay, below is an example text/letter of a Job Interview Follow-Up Letter that I wrote and used in 2004/5. For more “corporate” and /or “professional(ism)” example letters you can also go here or here.

In order to be as thorough as possible – because I know that you as a fellow “careerist” can fully appreciate being thorough – I’ve included in this post the original scan/pics of the Job Interview Follow-Up Letter. As you may notice, a few changes have been made in the OCRed text. Anyone is welcome to use either of these examples as a frame or template or verbatim for their Job Interview Follow-Up Letter. If you use any of this then all I ask in return is that you please give me credit for at least helping a bit with your career or you can just say to friend while you’re having a fancy beer in a fancy place: “I received a little bit of help with my career from worstwriter Tommi.” Please, do not send money.

FYI the stains on the pics below are from coffee and tears and I did retrieve the letter from file thirteen which is to the left of my personal abode.

Please be advised that if you use this follow-up letter you might want to use the appropriate names of your potential and/or future employer. The scanned pics and the text are provided so as to give honest and sincere job seekers a feel for the level and depth, emotion and pathos that is/was my professional career desire. Whatever your desire(s), I would recommend that you don’t just cut & paste the text provided. At the least, give it a quick once-over.

“Disclaimer“? Well here ya go: I am not responsible for the results of you using this letter. Let me repeat that: I take no responsibility for the results of you using this letter. Although we now live in a world, lead by my Grand United Mistakes, where responsibility for ones actions is null & void, and because of the simple fact that I recieve no money for this blog, I am still not responsible for you. I know that makes no sense if you’re a “careerist”. But no matter. Just pay your mortgage and get some more debt. You’ll be fine…

I only offer this Job Interview Follow-Up Letter as a gesture. Perhaps a gesture of kindness because I still know how to share in the sandbox that is occupied by idiocrats like those who require a Job Interview Follow-Up Letter. Hence, all of this blog is with good intentions and is also part of my resolution for the upcoming new year of your dead-lord, 2007. With that last thought in mind: bless you all.

PLEASE: Leave comments on what you think about this post. If you dare. (But follow the comment rules set here.)

January, 2005

re: job interview follow-up letter

Dear Ms. So-n-So,

The job interview in Germany in December, 2004, with you and your board-of-management colleague, Ms. Go-n-Go, was a wonderful experience. It was, honestly, a highlight amongst the many interviews I’ve had in recent years. In the beginning of the interview when you asked me what I thought of your company there was a moment where I began to err. It was one of those odd moments, I suppose, a moment so abrupt, and I thought at the time inappropriate, that confusion and delusion over-came me. At the least the initial question didn’t adhere to the interview schedule you had forwarded to my hotel room a few hours earlier. In hindsight, a great trick on your part to measure the boundaries of my corporate demeanor. Luckily, your wit and superimposed sarcasm deluded the situation I initially found incomprehensible. Either/or your question: “So… what do you think of Dingle & Chingle?” will become a generic aspect of my job interview preparations in the future. Of course, I can only thank you for this experience because, even if our relationship ends here, I have learned more than I could have hoped for and that makes this a wondrous experience.

As mentioned at the end of the interview, as an appendix to your question about my “weaknesses”, I’m still having trouble maintaining balance with regard to your suggestion that “the desire” to succeed may be above my capabilities. Your assurance that therapy in this matter, which, if I were hired by D&C would ultimately be a perk, is one of the reasons I would be honored, whole-heartily, to join D&C. Your advice regarding how I personally measure my “capabilities” will go into my PDA as a special memo interconnected with the weekly reminder functionality – and yes, I will attach a “rocking” ring-tone to it.

Before closing this follow-up letter I would like to address one other moment we shared during the interview. Perhaps you recall? It was the moment where Ms. Go-n-Go left to make a cell-phone call. As soon as she left the interview room you admitted that banality is the main ingredient in job-interviews. You also admitted that you thought I was of “good stock” based on my resume and if possible you would hire me outright. I was stunned at your candor and righteousness. Hence, in hindsight, some of the responses I gave to questions were a bit far-fetched and, perhaps, cynical. But please keep in mind that when I say “cynical” the word can also be of a positive and humble usage. Of course, this is enough proof that I am flawed but I also want to assure you that if I were facing a person from another organization I would have felt less intimidated.

One last thought. Being alone with you in that room after Ms. Go-n-Go left positioned me in the proverbial corner. Please take that in consideration as you evaluate my behavior and rhetoric during and after that point. I say this now – not only due to the fact that your micro-recording machine was bigger than mine, (the overlord-micro 3120 is a wonderful piece of personal electronics engineering, BTW) but also because I felt and still feel that your use of situational vernacular was/is ingenious. The other remarks you made about “corporatism” and Ms. Go-n-Go will remain between us – I have committed them to deep memory and appreciate your trust in my use of discretion.

In closing, when I admitted that I thought you and your company were an enigma, I think I failed to extrapolate any or enough dramatics to accentuate what I meant. I chose the word “enigma” with a deep seeded sense of awe and admiration. The personal encounter with you only fortified my mental senses in this regard. Our discussion of all the people in society that have been left behind and are never considered in job-interviews was such an inspiring moment that even now, as I write this letter, I am overcome with emotion. Thank you for that.

The interview with you, Ms. So-n-So, proved to me that there is reason and purpose as to why and how people like us start down the path of corporate copycatting. The hour we spent together taught me more than the last three hundred interviews I’ve had. (What you said about those other companies will remain our little secret). No matter what comes from this experience I have learned a great deal and hopefully it will guide me down whatever path is chosen for me. That’s why I will never forget you. As a corporate-wannabe I’m looking for exposure, acceptance, tolerance and the interview with you proved that such nomenclature is valid.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart that I’m allowed (previously mis-spelled as aloud) to live in your world.

Sincerely,

(aka worst-but-sincere-writer)

-tgs-

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