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We’ve all wondered what’s the fine line between following up and stalking. You had a great interview, you loved the company, the offices, even the pattern in the rug. You’re sure that it’s fate-you’re MEANT to work there! You even had great rapport with the interviewer. A jobseeker who came to my meetup meeting this week asked this same question. He’s a very successful, more senior candidate, and he was trying to figure out how much is too much?

But then several hours go by, and they don’t call, that turns into a whole day, and then another, and another-and you’re wondering why they didn’t feel that “magic” that was flying through the air.

Sound a little like a great date?

When you have that kind of connection, it kind of is. But also like following up after a perfect date, you want to do it in a way that shows you’re interested but not desperate or clingy.
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Do you get stuck trying to come up with unique, interesting questions to ask in an interview? The interviewer will ask the “Do you have any questions for us/me?” question toward the end of the interview and will be asked in each and every interview you have. If you interview with multiple people, then you’ll be asked it multiple times.

Throughout the interview you’ve given intelligent, thoughtful, and even some responses so well phrased that you could have written a script for Stephen Spielberg on excellent interview answers. So why do so many people waste this golden opportunity to show how much thought they’ve put into the company by not having some interesting questions to ask the interviewer?
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Several times each week I receive resumes. Well, that’s obvious, of course I do. It’s one of the things I do: fix resumes. But these resumes just land in my inbox. There’s no note of explanation, no introduction, no polite request to look at it and see what I think, no paragraph on the problem. Just….the resume.

My point isn’t, “If you’re going to send me your resume, don’t do that.” I’m not an employer, so I don’t care. I just email back and ask if they wanted me to look at it or what. Sometimes it’s one of those resume blasting services and somehow I got on their list. That means some person has paid good money to have their resume blasted all over the place to who know who and who knows where.But the employers, now that’s a different story. They’re deleting the email. The same people who wouldn’t dream of sending their resume by snail mail without a cover letter, will do exactly that by email.
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