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.
lol dude. it's not a big deal. Send him an email and explain it if you feel it's necessary. I personally dont think you should flood his mailbox just because of a small typo :D
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...
Yeah , I know I really screwed up the email. I was wondering whether I should explain my mistake to him.
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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...
Your fine , it's not a big deal
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Thanks guys. I just hope that I didn't do too much damage.
What was the outcome?
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.
You're fine.
You're having delusions of grandeur. Your interviewer probably won't read either of the emails. And if he did, he didn't read it closely enough to find a mistake. You showed follow up and interest by bothering to send the email. I absolutely would not send an explanation.
Sorry if this is spam, but I just googled "typo in thank you email after interview" and this makes me feel much better. At least I got their sex right. =]
Screwed up thank you notes post the interview (Originally Posted: 06/13/2016)
Hello all... I recently finished an interview with a family office and I sent a thanks notes to the founder of the fund post all rounds last night. This morning, however, when I read the note again on my mobile device, I saw noticeable inconsistency in font sizes among a few sentences. Did I just screw up my chance of getting an offer?
Thanks all.
I chuckled, thanks
So not so bad? It looks acceptable on Gmail app but totally awful on good app / outlook...
Not necessarily. You just have to wait and see.
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."
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.
Did you claim to be detailed oriented in your interview? If so, they might find it ironic. Otherwise, no big deal.
I do not think I emphasized on that during my interview... Thanks.
Thank You Letter Mistake - Recently interviewed with a small regional PE firm (Originally Posted: 09/08/2010)
I recently interviewed with a small regional Private Equity firm with about 200m AUM. I interviewed with 4 people in the firm and thus had to write thank you letters to the sole partner, senior associate, associate, and to the comptroller. In the letter to the senior associate I accidentally ended a sentence with two periods instead of one i.e. ( Sample sentence. . ), will this affect my chances? I went in to the interview with solid recommendations, and I'm really hoping to land the position.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!
Big Bertha
can you do anything to rectify this error? no. so should you not worry about it a just get on with your day? yes.
I highly doubt the senior associate will fwd around your letter and say 'hey look this amateur put two periods at the end of sentence - INSTANT DING!'
No it won't affect the outcome.
Are you for real?
You begin with the assumption that this letter is even opened. You then assume that if opened it is read.
Both fairly unlikely. Don't worry about it, your interview will make or break your chances.
Yeah I'm for real, I guess I'm just nervous and don't want to ruin my chances with a stupid mistake like that. Thanks for the advice.
Big Bertha
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