Interview question

ShallowSeas

Is it okay to send a 'thank you' email to the person who interviewed me at a job interview Friday, or should I send an actual card through the mail to her? What do you guys typically do after an interview?

Dignity100

I typically send an email while everything is fresh in my head.  I'm always afraid that snail-mail won't make it (I know in my department we check it like once a week).

blabla89

I always send an email because it's immediate. Like @Dignity100 said, it may take a while for office mail to reach the interviewer's desk.

[Deleted User]

I would usually send a follow-up thank you email. Snail mail could take too long so like PP have said, it's more immediate to do an email. A thank you card is really personal IMO so if this is a professional business setting then I think an email is best.

LizzyTish88

I agree on the email as it is much quicker. At the rate people are hiring these days, snail mail just might be too slow. 

KeptInStitches

Email is much quicker, and you don't want to take the chance that they wouldn't see it.

BreMR

I think one of my biggest regrets lately is that I sent a snail mail thank you to a job that I really wanted thinking that it would show how interested I was... I think "had I sent an email would I have gotten the job?"  I just read somewhere else that some people will send an immediate follow up email and then a thank you through the mail.  I think I'll do that next time! 

ShallowSeas

Thanks, ladies! I just emailed her a thank you letter!

eilis1228

Either is fine. I've had people send me both before too. As long as you acknowledge it in some way, you should be fine.

LabLove86

It depended on how I had contacted the people previously. If it was all via email - I emailed. 

If it was phone contact I sent a card. 

CLoGreenEyes

I'm going to be the odd one out and say that I usually send a hand-written thank you note. This was reinforced when, a few months after getting interviewing for a job and mailing a card, I was working there and happened to notice the card still displayed in my interviewer's office. I think it sends an extra message that interviewers take note of (whether that message is, "I'm a really nice, thoughtful person," or, "I'm a pretentious sycophant," I'm not sure .

HOWEVER, that being said, I ultimately think that either way is perfectly acceptable, especially in this day and age. The only reason I was able to send my notes quickly through the mail was that I had them pre-addressed and stamped; all I had to do was scribble the note in my car after the interview and drop them in a post office box. Is it worth the effort? Maybe, maybe not. I don't think you can go wrong as long as you send something right away and it's a genuine, thorough note that reinforces the fit between you and the employer.

carliealissa

Geeze, I've never sent one.  Well, my current job is the only real "interview" I've ever had, but still, I've had meetings before getting jobs.  I just never thought about it or knew you were supposed to.  Whoops!!!