Thank You letters for an interview?
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Hi All, I have been sent a grovelling boiler plate letter to fill in and email to a company I had an interview with last week, should I? I ask as this is the widest spread I can think of (Juniors to Seniors). The role looked interesting, the location was a bit awkward. It's just the fact 'they' are the party asking you, rather you asking them. I accept that it changes every so often but I have seen it in the book "What Colour (Color) is my Parachute" but I have had chance to get to it yet.:confused:
Have they sent *you* a letter thanking you for your time? No? Then they can, to put it as politely as I know, GDIAFBOT*. In other news, all recruiters are b'tards, recruiters doubly so. :laugh: \* that's *Flaming Ball of Tar* for those not to sure.
veni bibi saltavi
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Hi All, I have been sent a grovelling boiler plate letter to fill in and email to a company I had an interview with last week, should I? I ask as this is the widest spread I can think of (Juniors to Seniors). The role looked interesting, the location was a bit awkward. It's just the fact 'they' are the party asking you, rather you asking them. I accept that it changes every so often but I have seen it in the book "What Colour (Color) is my Parachute" but I have had chance to get to it yet.:confused:
Fill in the groveling boiler plate letter? No. Write your OWN letter in your OWN words? Yes. Whether they called you or you called them, it doesn't hurt to write back and it's good practice. How much time will it take and what would you otherwise do with the time? If they interviewed other candidates who sent in 'boiler plate' letters and yours is personal, which do you think will be noticed? Tim
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Hi All, I have been sent a grovelling boiler plate letter to fill in and email to a company I had an interview with last week, should I? I ask as this is the widest spread I can think of (Juniors to Seniors). The role looked interesting, the location was a bit awkward. It's just the fact 'they' are the party asking you, rather you asking them. I accept that it changes every so often but I have seen it in the book "What Colour (Color) is my Parachute" but I have had chance to get to it yet.:confused:
Who asked you to fill it in? The company where the position is, or a parasite?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Who asked you to fill it in? The company where the position is, or a parasite?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
No not the company, The Agent. (Public forum you don't know who's reading! :wtf: )
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Fill in the groveling boiler plate letter? No. Write your OWN letter in your OWN words? Yes. Whether they called you or you called them, it doesn't hurt to write back and it's good practice. How much time will it take and what would you otherwise do with the time? If they interviewed other candidates who sent in 'boiler plate' letters and yours is personal, which do you think will be noticed? Tim
Umm, Okay, I supposed I was worried that I was going to come across as a grovelling so & so...
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Have they sent *you* a letter thanking you for your time? No? Then they can, to put it as politely as I know, GDIAFBOT*. In other news, all recruiters are b'tards, recruiters doubly so. :laugh: \* that's *Flaming Ball of Tar* for those not to sure.
veni bibi saltavi
GDIAFBOT, Hungarian?
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No not the company, The Agent. (Public forum you don't know who's reading! :wtf: )
glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote:
The --Agent-- Reptilian Slime Ball. (Public forum you do --n't-- know who's reading! :WTF: )
ftfy
veni bibi saltavi
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No not the company, The Agent. (Public forum you don't know who's reading! :wtf: )
Then I can only agree with the others. If it had been a request by a future employer I would have given you a different answer.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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GDIAFBOT, Hungarian?
FOAD == Flutter Off And Die... GDIAF == Go Die In A Fire... GDIAFBOT == Go Die In A Flaming Ball Of Tar :-D
veni bibi saltavi
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FOAD == Flutter Off And Die... GDIAF == Go Die In A Fire... GDIAFBOT == Go Die In A Flaming Ball Of Tar :-D
veni bibi saltavi
So, yes it is Hungarian, Attila the Hun style :laugh:
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FOAD == Flutter Off And Die... GDIAF == Go Die In A Fire... GDIAFBOT == Go Die In A Flaming Ball Of Tar :-D
veni bibi saltavi
Ahh, wasn't thinking that way, mind you I'm guessing flutter is to keep it KSS! (Not that I would know, only child etc.)
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So, yes it is Hungarian, Attila the Hun style :laugh:
Well Atila did have a way with words!
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Hi All, I have been sent a grovelling boiler plate letter to fill in and email to a company I had an interview with last week, should I? I ask as this is the widest spread I can think of (Juniors to Seniors). The role looked interesting, the location was a bit awkward. It's just the fact 'they' are the party asking you, rather you asking them. I accept that it changes every so often but I have seen it in the book "What Colour (Color) is my Parachute" but I have had chance to get to it yet.:confused:
I am confused by this... I was taught to send a thank you letter... but whether I send it or not has never affected getting a job offer (because I have always received a job offer after every interview... ) I feel it is old fashioned. Who do I send the letter to? If I am interviewed by 10 people... (I've been to a 6 hour interview before - multiple people in each session), who do I send the "Thank You" to? Not the HR person who greeted me... he isn't doing the hiring. Which technical person do I send it to? What if each one doesn't give a business card, so I don't know how to reach that person. Should I write 10 letters to each one :sigh: These days, I just throw a email out to whoever I can and call it a day - for context this is in the USA... there may be cultural differences elsewhere.
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Umm, Okay, I supposed I was worried that I was going to come across as a grovelling so & so...
Reading other replies.. I would send a letter to the company you interviewed with.. the recruiter... uhh... no.
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So, yes it is Hungarian, Attila the Hun style :laugh:
Hungarian is *far* more complex. As a language their swearing has made it all but impossible to say "Your Mother" without a kind adjective. There's even a tendency to improvise and combine multiple curses; and curses are what most of them are. So something like "May God [redacted] your 'seamstress' mother with a horse" would not be too surprising. On a good day, Mrs Wife can keep up a stream of expletive laden curses for fifteen minutes without hesitation, deviation or repetition.
veni bibi saltavi
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Umm, Okay, I supposed I was worried that I was going to come across as a grovelling so & so...
glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote:
I was worried that I was going to come across as a grovelling so & so
You are looking for a job. :~
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy. In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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Hungarian is *far* more complex. As a language their swearing has made it all but impossible to say "Your Mother" without a kind adjective. There's even a tendency to improvise and combine multiple curses; and curses are what most of them are. So something like "May God [redacted] your 'seamstress' mother with a horse" would not be too surprising. On a good day, Mrs Wife can keep up a stream of expletive laden curses for fifteen minutes without hesitation, deviation or repetition.
veni bibi saltavi
I do remember reading a reply from a request to surrender from a commander somewhere in Hungary (or surroundings) around year 1000 or so. In the letter he basically said, No I wont surrender, you'd have to fight us. However it amounted to a full A4 page with normal 14 size font of insults of what you mother was/wanted/should be doing to other animals, and that your sisters and brothers were doing on their spare time etc. It was stunning to read, and quite funny.
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Well Atila did have a way with words!
Well, the irony is that he must have had that, in order to make other follow him. :)
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote:
I was worried that I was going to come across as a grovelling so & so
You are looking for a job. :~
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy. In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
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I am confused by this... I was taught to send a thank you letter... but whether I send it or not has never affected getting a job offer (because I have always received a job offer after every interview... ) I feel it is old fashioned. Who do I send the letter to? If I am interviewed by 10 people... (I've been to a 6 hour interview before - multiple people in each session), who do I send the "Thank You" to? Not the HR person who greeted me... he isn't doing the hiring. Which technical person do I send it to? What if each one doesn't give a business card, so I don't know how to reach that person. Should I write 10 letters to each one :sigh: These days, I just throw a email out to whoever I can and call it a day - for context this is in the USA... there may be cultural differences elsewhere.
Well, here in the UK we seem to ape the USA so may be...