Writing a Follow-Up Letter
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Hiring managers are seeing more and more applicants for each
position and are generally so swamped, that they cannot contact
all of them. Nor will they remember most.
Subsequently, writing and sending a follow-up letter is good idea,
when you haven't heard about your job candidacy or resume status
in a week or so after you've initially applied for a job.
To ensure that your job candidacy or resume gets the attention
it deserves, send a follow-up letter to again place yourself in
front of the hiring manager. Not only will the hiring manager take
note of your continued interest, but you might move ahead of similarly
qualified candidates who did not bother to send follow-up letters.
Within the body of your follow-up letter, reiterate your most
stellar qualifications that match the job requirements. For ideas,
see the professionally-written sample linked below.
To ensure a professional look for your follow-up letter and to
maintain consistency, use the same heading that was on your resume
and initial cover letter, if sending by postal mail. If sending
by email, perfectly acceptable these days, your follow-up letter
doesn't have to be quite as formally formatted.
However, never send your follow-up letter as an email file attachment
without consent. (Send it in the body of an email instead.) Many
employers have set up their email servers to automatically strip
off attachments, because they might contain harmful computer viruses.
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