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thank you notes |
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rylandb - What's a good thank you note |
| Date Posted: |
03/24/2005 |
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Goodness! A few hasty, incorrect conclusions going on here!
You know the saying - be careful what you assume.
First - I am the ENTIRE HR department of a small, global research firm. I personally do all searching, screening, interviewing and hiring with no assistance/input whatsoever from anyone else. I am not a gatekeeper, nor do I even have one. Our firm is a hands-on LLP and I am the Resource Partner. I hire about 20-25 people world wide per year. (We have an extremely low turn-over - I am very good at my job.)
I was simply stating my personal opinion that with the thank you notes I receive, most are hastily scrawled emails and seem to be nothing more than self-serving drivel.
I am of the old school - I send hand-written thank you notes for gifts received, dinner invitations, kind thoughts, etc. Perhaps if more people knew how to write a GOOD thank you note I would not feel the way that I do.
Every website, job board, resume coach, headhunter, personnel agency, college and employment office on the planet recommends thank you notes as mandatory. Not a bad theory perhaps, but people should be taught how to write one first.
Should people not be able to post their opinions on a site such as this without being personally vilified? I find it rather remarkable to have been called a socially inept respresentative of a human resources department!!! Not only did you jump to a spectacularly incorrect conclusion, you used that conclusion to bolster a badly constructed argument. |
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What constitutes a good thank you note? Would be curious for future reference-
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