how to write thank you letter after bad interview
I had a poor on-campus interview with an adcom and the interview didn't even go past 25 mins. I thought I was prepared but it went downhill quick. This was my first mba interview and I don't have many alternate schools at the moment. Please post or pm me if you have any advice .
If the interview was truly as bad as you think, no thank you letter will save or excuse or fix it. Whatever you do, don't imply a poor performance or offer excuses- that will not help if you're right and will only hurt if you're wrong. Thank-you letters often seal the deal on a great interview or sometimes make the difference for a good but not great interview. I'm not hearing that here.
Unless you really want this and it's possible you could have gotten the wrong impression, I'd send a pro-forma thank you and devote the minimum energy to this required to be a polite interviewee. Then let it go, let the admission committee sort it out, and stop thinking about it after you send the thank you note. You're free of this now. Get some exercise and let your mind be free. Forget the interview; it never happened. You are not going to dwell on it any further (after you have sent off the note.)
I am just one data point and I could be wrong. The last thing I would want to do is have my advice be your only advice, because I honestly don't know how the interview went, or how important it is. Many people suffer post-interview anxiety and second-guess themselves way too much. And I don't want to cause anguish where there shouldn't be any. But the kindest thing you can do for yourself is to spend no more than an hour on this and then let this go. And then forget the interview ever happened and stop second-guessing yourself.
So my advice is this: write the thank you, say you enjoyed being there, you want to come there, thanks, SEND. Keep the option there but devote no more energy than you need to. Now you're free to go think about something else. Get some exercise, set a new personal best on your time for the mile, and get your confidence back. For six minutes, you'll be too busy focused on getting your time down to a 6:15 to think about the interview, and after that, whenever your mind wanders to the interview, steer it to your time on the mile.
Good luck.
Using thank you note to 'fix' interview mistake? (Originally Posted: 03/05/2012)
Hey guys, just had an interview and felt it was going really well, but when they asked if I had any questions I froze and forgot what I had prepared. I asked some halfhearted questions and they could tell I was nervous. Is it possible I can alleviate this somehow with the thank you note? Or should I just not mention it and hope for the best?
Thanks
Better to not mention it.
You could ask them a question or two in the note, without referencing the interview.
Agreed with Sandhurst - can include a question in the follow up, but don't have to. Regardless, unless you really sounded like an idiot, they probably had their minds made up before you got to that point anyway.
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