Interviews and same day emails Forum

[Anonymous User]

So I'm just curious about y'all's opinion on the protocol of sending an email and thank you note after a screener. From what I hear it's to send an email the same day and to send a thank you card the next morning. Any thoughts on these rules? As a side question, what exactly am I supposed to say in either of them? "Thanks for your time and consideration and I look forward to hearing from you soon" is all I can really think of that both gets my point across and doesn't waste their time.

[MyNameIsFlynn!]

Sending a thank you after a screener is weird and unnecessarily clogs up their inbox

[Anonymous User]

Sending a thank you after a screener is weird and unnecessarily clogs up their inbox

Agreed. Which is another reason I haven't sent one yet. I figure if they're going to give me a callback, a thank you email is irrelevant. And potentially annoying.

[Anonymous User]

Sending a thank you after a screener is weird and unnecessarily clogs up their inbox

I sent an email thank you same day as screener. Callback next morning, offer later in the week. Take it fwiw, but I think an email thank you is a good gesture.

I do however think your plan for email followed by snail mail card is a terrible idea and definitely overkill. Stick to one or the other.

[Anonymous User]

Sending a thank you after a screener is weird and unnecessarily clogs up their inbox

I sent an email thank you same day as screener. Callback next morning, offer later in the week. Take it fwiw, but I think an email thank you is a good gesture.

I do however think your plan for email followed by snail mail card is a terrible idea and definitely overkill. Stick to one or the other.

Interesting. I never thought of it as overkill. Just thought it was the norm. But thanks. I'll definitely keep that in consideration. Although that makes me a little more unsure of what to do now. If it helps any, I'm in a large south east market and can see either way being a good or bad move.

[A. Nony Mouse]

People argue about whether any form of thank you is even expected. Two versions for the same interview is definitely way too much.

[Anonymous User]

People argue about whether any form of thank you is even expected. Two versions for the same interview is definitely way too much.

Yea and I understand that. My only concern is following social norms I guess. But if social norms differ and results seem to say that it doesn't matter either way, then I probably won't waste their time or mine.

[didntretake]

Definitely send a thank you. Keep it short and don't make any mistakes. I got lots of responses to my thank you emails from partners and associates alike.

[lawyerxxx]

No

[Anonymous User]

Just went through oci and my anecdotal experience is that they are completely unnecessary (at least for the top NY firms--I can see an argument for it for smaller markets).

I'm someone who sends thank you cards to friends and I made a decision not to do it for oci because I found a typo in my communication with a firm prior to oci. So I did not send a single thank you note for screeners and had no problems. ~86% success rate of turning screeners into callbacks. Didn't do thank you notes after callbacks, except for a full day callback that ended with an offer dinner since the dinner was delicious and was hours long with four attorneys. Turned 4 of the 5 callbacks I attended into offers (cancelled the rest of them since I front loaded my favorite firms). I hope this is a helpful datapoint for the thank you note discussion.

(My cbs/offers ranged from v5 - v100. I'm at a t14, top 1/3-1/4, above average work experience, been told by screeners that I'm a good interviewer, but not URM or anything super special that would make me an outlier.)