Thank You Letter Mistake - Interview went extremely well

I went to a consulting interview today. The interview went extremely well. However, I put Ms. instead of Mr. instead of the interviewer's last name. I re-emailed him and fixed the typo. How severe is this mistake? Should I send him another email and explain the error? Thank you very much.

 

This is good. I usually take a position of dominance during my interviews and networking sessions to show that I wear the pants in the relationship. I usually hand them my business card before they can hand them mine and say "You know where to reach me."

 

Good job displaying your attention to detail. If you can't get the interviewer's sex correctly in a thank you letter, how can they trust you with clients? Hopefully they are understanding...

 
iceberq:
Good job displaying your attention to detail. If you can't get the interviewer's sex correctly in a thank you letter, how can they trust you with clients? Hopefully they are understanding...

Yeah , I know I really screwed up the email. I was wondering whether I should explain my mistake to him.

 
2x2Matrix:
They decided if they were going to make you an offer (or ask you to the next round) before you left the interview. That impression that they got from the interview is much more important than a thank you typo. Obviously you'd like that email back, but it's really unlikely that it changes their decision to make you an offer.

Thanks, I hope that's the case. The interview went really well. However, attention to details in consulting industry is extremely important. Therefore, I might have screwed myself...

 

I definitely wouldn't email them that you made a mistake before, THAT just leaves a negative impression. Just forget about it. a) the interviewer will skim through the email and probably not notice b) the decision was most likely already made before you sent the email, so that mistake shouldn't really have an impact on their final decision

 

I dont think they'll notice. and even if they do, they probably wont mention it so you'll never know if it affected their decision. Like the others said, if they like you, they aren't going to care.

during SA recruiting last winter i sent some thank you emails from my blackberry on my way home, not realizing that it was sending them from my personal email and not my school email. ( i guess my personal was set to be the default email). So all the recruiters got emails from snowboarder_kid655@hotmail haha. I didn't get any offers but I think that's because i botched my interviews. I was worried though, it felt pretty unprofessional.

 

A guy I knew in college got dinged after a MBB interview. He wrote a long, polite letter asking them to reconsider. He faxed it to them, as was often done at that time. The cover letter included the name of the file. He had named his letter f***you.doc, which appeared on the cover. The firm did not reconsider its decision.

 

No. Chill.

No one is going to look at a fantastic candidate and be like "oh well his emails had weird fonts. Forget his obvious value and potential, this whole font thing is a nonstarter."

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I have a banking background and usually am very sensitive about the formatting stuff. I knew it has something to do with the gmail formatting issues. But again, it makes me nervous about sending the email with bad visual. Thanks all.

 

can you do anything to rectify this error? no. so should you not worry about it a just get on with your day? yes.

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