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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.

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

MyNameIsFlynn! wrote: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.

MyNameIsFlynn! wrote: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.

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MyNameIsFlynn! wrote: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.

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

A. Nony Mouse wrote: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.

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.

No

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.)