Description
In this video we talk about how to follow-up, who you should follow-up with, and why it is important in your job search.
Transcript
Joey Weber: Hi, this is Joey with www.marketabilitytraininglibrary.com. This is another Marketability Training Minute. Today's topic is, How to conduct a followup. So following up, let's be honest. Most people forget all other people unless they have a specific reason to remember them or they are reminded of them. Your goals to do both, following up is about reminding people of you. Who should you follow-up with? Follow-up with everybody, follow-up with employers you talk to, definitely with any interviews, make sure you have their numbers or emails or addresses, friends who have helped you and friends of friends who have helped you, any of your references that you plan on giving to an employer, make sure your relationship with them is current and anybody you have asked for information including anybody who has given you a card at any networking event, make sure to keep in touch. How should you follow up? In order of effectiveness, the most effective is a face-to-face meeting. This is typically only possible with casual friends who have helped you out or friends of friends who have helped you out. But a face-to-face lunch or coffee meeting is very, very effective for follow-up. A phone, this allows you to engage the person in a real time basis, so it's very effective. One thing to note is you should keep this brief and keep it to just thanking them for their time, because if you get into other things and it's really long and drawn out, then this becomes very, very in effective. A hand written note, if you every have an option to handwrite communication versus typing it out, handwritten goes a long way. It makes it obvious that you took the time to write, just make sure that if your handwriting is sloppy that you make a couple of copies until it looks good and legible. Last is email, if you can't do anything else for whatever reason sending an email is better then nothing, but it's only better then nothing. Everything else is more personable and an email is so common and easy to do that most people won't even think twice about it. So that's the Marketability Training Minute. For more videos on career question people have, go to www.marketabilitytraininglibrary.com. See you there.
