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The twit is a response to Hey, I wrote something! … I’ve been hiring people for 10 years, and I still swear by a simple rule: If someone doesn’t send a thank y

The twit is a response to Hey, I wrote something! … I’ve been hiring people for 10 years, and I still swear by a simple rule: If someone doesn’t send a thank you email, don’t hire them.

arkades 8y ago
Apparently a follow-up to an identical article written years past, that was also not well-received.
mcv 8y ago
Even if they'd have to hunt down that email address themselves, according to the article she links to. A thank you email to someone you're already in an email conversation with is not at all unreasonable, but expecting people to hunt down your email address just to send you a thank you, is downright weird.
- Radle 8y ago
  Only hiring people who send a thank you email is totally weird. "It shows resourcefulness, too, because the candidate often has to hunt down an email address the interviewer never gave them." To be honest my time is pretty much to valuable for this kind of teenager games. I am busy solving real problems for real customers. I don't have the time to search for your Email address, I also don't need to do that, people usually hire me for point 1), I get shit done. "To be clear, a thank-you note does not ensure someone will be a successful hire. But using the thank-you email as a barrier to entry has proved beneficial, at least at my company." the author says. Blatantly ignorant towards all the genius they've lost in their broken process. "The handful of times we've moved forward with a candidate despite not receiving a thank you, we've been ghosted, or the offer we make is ultimately rejected." The author says, because changing the strategy for a handful of cases out of thousands is definitely really scientific and stuff. "As a hiring manager, you should always expect a thank-you email, and you should never make an offer to someone who neglected to send one." as the last quote just showing the pure entitlement the author suffers... That's exactly the kind of thing that makes me happy to be in Software, people who bring trouble usually don't get promoted into responsibility...
  - Cactus2018 8y ago
    "The handful of times we've moved forward with a candidate despite not receiving a thank you, we've been ghosted, or the offer we make is ultimately rejected." Perhaps this is selecting for desperate job hunters who send thank you notes.
    - renholder 8y ago
      >Perhaps this is selecting for desperate job hunters who send thank you notes. That's entirely plausible. I mean, you're probably <insert arbitrary percentage here> more likely to not turn an offer down, even if it's below the cost-of-living for the area in question, if you're willing to go to those lengths, yeah? Their solution to the problem of having offers turned down seems to be not to investigate why but to just hire the people most willing to take them... I mean, they found a loop-hole but to quote the Big Lebowski: "You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole."
      - Cactus2018 8y ago
        New theory... the original twitter's annual performance metric is based on number of successful new hires (turned down offers and candidate who realize they are a bad fit are negatives)
  - Daniel3 8y ago
    Your kind makes me laugh. "I am busy solving real problems for real customers." Yep, I'm sure you hardly have time to brush your teeth with all those real problems popping out from everywhere just asking to be solved!
    - Radle 8y ago
      Funny that you picked this example, because it's actually true, check with my dentist.
  - mcv 8y ago
    > "at least at my company" > makes me happy to be in Software This might well be the one detail that makes the difference here. In software, and many other industries, this would be stupid and counterproductive, but in journalism, polite but invasive persistence might actually be a relevant character trait.
whitakerch 8y ago
Eh, I see "Thank You" emails as annoying personally and think others feel the same way but apparently not haha.

The twit is a response to Hey, I wrote something! … I’ve been hiring people for 10 years, and I still swear by a simple rule: If someone doesn’t send a thank you email, don’t hire them.

arkades 8y ago

Apparently a follow-up to an identical article written years past, that was also not well-received.

mcv 8y ago

Even if they'd have to hunt down that email address themselves, according to the article she links to. A thank you email to someone you're already in an email conversation with is not at all unreasonable, but expecting people to hunt down your email address just to send you a thank you, is downright weird.

Radle 8y ago
Only hiring people who send a thank you email is totally weird. "It shows resourcefulness, too, because the candidate often has to hunt down an email address the interviewer never gave them." To be honest my time is pretty much to valuable for this kind of teenager games. I am busy solving real problems for real customers. I don't have the time to search for your Email address, I also don't need to do that, people usually hire me for point 1), I get shit done. "To be clear, a thank-you note does not ensure someone will be a successful hire. But using the thank-you email as a barrier to entry has proved beneficial, at least at my company." the author says. Blatantly ignorant towards all the genius they've lost in their broken process. "The handful of times we've moved forward with a candidate despite not receiving a thank you, we've been ghosted, or the offer we make is ultimately rejected." The author says, because changing the strategy for a handful of cases out of thousands is definitely really scientific and stuff. "As a hiring manager, you should always expect a thank-you email, and you should never make an offer to someone who neglected to send one." as the last quote just showing the pure entitlement the author suffers... That's exactly the kind of thing that makes me happy to be in Software, people who bring trouble usually don't get promoted into responsibility...
- Cactus2018 8y ago
  "The handful of times we've moved forward with a candidate despite not receiving a thank you, we've been ghosted, or the offer we make is ultimately rejected." Perhaps this is selecting for desperate job hunters who send thank you notes.
  - renholder 8y ago
    >Perhaps this is selecting for desperate job hunters who send thank you notes. That's entirely plausible. I mean, you're probably <insert arbitrary percentage here> more likely to not turn an offer down, even if it's below the cost-of-living for the area in question, if you're willing to go to those lengths, yeah? Their solution to the problem of having offers turned down seems to be not to investigate why but to just hire the people most willing to take them... I mean, they found a loop-hole but to quote the Big Lebowski: "You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole."
    - Cactus2018 8y ago
      New theory... the original twitter's annual performance metric is based on number of successful new hires (turned down offers and candidate who realize they are a bad fit are negatives)
- Daniel3 8y ago
  Your kind makes me laugh. "I am busy solving real problems for real customers." Yep, I'm sure you hardly have time to brush your teeth with all those real problems popping out from everywhere just asking to be solved!
  - Radle 8y ago
    Funny that you picked this example, because it's actually true, check with my dentist.
- mcv 8y ago
  > "at least at my company" > makes me happy to be in Software This might well be the one detail that makes the difference here. In software, and many other industries, this would be stupid and counterproductive, but in journalism, polite but invasive persistence might actually be a relevant character trait.

whitakerch 8y ago

Eh, I see "Thank You" emails as annoying personally and think others feel the same way but apparently not haha.