Survey result: No one ever follow up after an interview!
Sunday, June 1, 2008 9:53As expected, all responded never. Even for myself, never as a job seeker or as an interviewer. I’ve never received any form of follow up after an interview from my candidates except from
recruitment company asking about their candidates.
On top of that, I also found out that job seekers having this thought that it will be offensive to the interviewer if they follow up after an interview. In matter of fact, I also had the same dogma. Only after I’ve begin to work on CMS, I started to realize that following up after an interview is not actually a bad thing if done correctly. It is also a boost up to secure the job.
Interestingly, some of my respondent (offline survery) commented that they are
only comfortable to follow up if they felt they did well during an interview from the “positive” expression of the interviewer. Rationally, if the interviewer is giving you positive feedback, following up will be easier. However, even though the interviewer is not so positive, following up may be helpful to convince the interviewer to reconsider your application or at certain situation, will call for a re-interview. As what Winston Churhcill, Prime Minister of United Kingdom during World War II famously said “Never never never give up”.
If following up is good to market our career, then why many of us are not doing it?
A simple answer is lack of awareness on how to effectively follow up. That is why; I’ve devised follow up as part of a process in CMS. I’ll be writing some articles in the future to expose the power of follow up.
Stay tune.
Regards
Yusoff
