The Perils of Texting (or: Can You Fix a Job Interview Thank You Note Mistake?)
One of my medical sales candidates had a great interview, and was following my advice to send a thank you note to the hiring manager as quickly as possible. BUT, she sent the thank you note on her iphone, and made a mistake. She realized after she sent the note that she had misspelled a word, and she was devastated. That’s almost as bad as misspelling a word on your resume.
Spell-check your job interview thank you notes
So, as her medical sales recruiter, I told her to go back to her computer and send another note:
“In my excitement over the job, I wanted to send you a thank you note as soon as possible. However, I realized that I misspelled ________. I’m embarrassed. It’s just not like me to make a mistake like that.” And so on. She ended the note with something positive, and the interview process went on. (In another situation, that would have ended her as a candidate for that job.)
The moral of the story: Be enthusiastic, send your thank you notes quickly, but take a breath and spell-check it before you send it. And maybe type it instead of texting it.
Written by Peggy McKee - the medical sales recruiter
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Great advice! I like the way the correction started–“In my excitement over the job… .” It reinforces the candidates enthusiasm. IMHO the shorter this kind of note it is the better. So I would cut it off very shortly after the first two sentences. Maybe just writing something like, “I wanted you to know that although I don’t often make mistakes, when I do, I always take time to correctly. Thanks again.”
Yikes! I meant, “… to correct them.” Thank goodness this isn’t for a job.
I’d like to study this theme in some more depth. Perhaps you have a bibliography of just what sources you used to prepare this posting? In that case can you tell me exactly what it is, or even better post it to me?