You should send a thank you letter after any professional contact has been made. Whether you are writing to express your appreciation for being given a job interview or an informational interview, a ...

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Whether you're writing a thank you note for a gift, a favor done by a friend, or for someone's presence, we can all admit that thank you notes are the first thing to be read (and, sadly, thrown away).

In my 19-plus years of teaching job search skills at an Ivy League graduate school (and I've taught through both boom and bust hiring markets), I still emphasize the importance of thank you notes.

A thank-you note got me my first real job. As a newly minted college graduate with no work experience, I was having a tough time finding my first grown-up gig. I thought I’d never get a break until I ...

Founder, career coach and interview coach behind CaffeinatedKyle.com. My goal is simple: to help people find jobs they LOVE. Thank you notes are an important yet often underestimated component of a ...

One of my most popular articles is “Three Steps to Writing a Perfect Thank You Note.” If you already write thank-you notes regularly, it’s a great reminder of the basics. For the rest of us who don’t, ...

You just walked out of your job interview, and you feel it went well. Great! You can now breathe a sigh of relief and pat yourself on the back! With that said, it’s also important to remember that you ...

If you think donor thank-you letters are fundraising 101, think again: recent research has shown that just 40 percent of nonprofits tick the right boxes when thanking their donors. Yet the lack of a ...