Finishing and Leaving Your Job Interview

If you are offered the interviewers hand, end with awhat was not. Remember you may have mentioned
firm, confident handshake (ensure you don't grip toonumerous, valid and relevant points and hit on the
hard) and a self-assured smile. Even if you feel youmain acceptable answers and these are the positive
could have improved on some aspects of theaspects that you should dwell upon. Just take a note
interview, a self-confident exit could go some way toof the plus points of your interview, for example,
salvaging the interview for you. Whether you think ithow well you prepared, your interview technique,
or not you will convey this confidence to thepositive answers you delivered and how you could
interviewer and you will leave a positive lastingimprove in the future. By doing this you have
impression.reflected this on paper and ensures that you don't
Remain as professional as possible; remember the jobforget these aspects for any future interviews
is not yours until you have been offered the postWaiting to hear about the job - The long wait
and signed your return copy of the contract! ThankIt's all over! All the hard work is completed and any
the interviewer for the time that they have affordednerves and tension of the whole process begin to
to you, say goodbye in a friendly manner and leavedrift away. After you have made and received those
the room. Leave the interview as if it was anwell wishing calls from your family and friends to find
absolute success.out how it went you begin to relax and you are glad
Whether or not you feel that the interview was ait is all over.
success or not, I suggest that you put it completelyWell it is not. You have one final task to complete
out of your mind when you leave the room and onlyand then it's all over.
reflect on your performance at a later date. I'veWrite your thank you note to the employer outlining
done this myself and when you occupy your mindyour thanks for their time and effort. I suggest you
too much on what you said or could have said it cando this as quickly as possible for three reasons. It
have a destructive impact on later job interviews youshows you are professional, well mannered and
may have. At the very least you should be confidentshows that the job is important to you. While these
that it has provided you with tremendous preparationare all admirable qualities that the employer will look
for the next one. Like all interviews I suggest youfor, in most cases, it will not influence the final
prepare in exactly the same way for any furtherinterview decision, but you never know. On a more
interviews to follow.practical level the purpose of writing a thank you
I suggest that you go back and reflect on theletter is that you may be the only one who has
interview a few days later to determine how youmade the effort to do so and therefore raise your
performed on the day. I always went over theprofile within that organization.
particular areas where I felt I mentioned the wrongIn turn, your name will unquestionably leave a
thing, gave an incomplete answer or there werelong-lasting impact in the interviewers mind and give
things I wished I had said but left out.you a potential competitive edge over others in the
Don't worry about this, many people do this afterfuture. So, take the time to write a short thank you
the interview and needlessly beat themselves up andletter the advantages for you are obvious.
over analyze every aspect of what was said, or