After you've attended a job interview, sending a brief interview follow up letter or (follow up email if appropriate) is a great idea.

Not only does it show the company you are interested in the position and are a professional person, it can help to keep you top of mind in the eyes of the hiring manager who may have interviewed many people for the position.

Just make sure you keep the letter/email brief and ensure that there are no spelling or grammatical errors. You don't want your good effort to be wasted if it contains typos that makes it look like you can't write properly.

Also, make sure you send the interview follow up letter in a timely fashion ie. on the day of the interview or the morning after at the latest. No point in waiting longer than this to send it.

Once you've sent a thank you letter after the interview, you might just want to wait to see how things play out rather than sending another note if you don't hear anything back.

It can sometimes take awhile for a company to actually wrap up a job search for a new staff member so any delay might be for unavoidable reasons that you're not aware of.

I understand that you're probably excited about the possibility of getting the job and you want to hear back from the company as soon as possible.

Hopefully the company gave you an indication of their timetable for hiring someone or at least gave you an indication of when you should hear from them regarding the next step in the process.

If you haven't heard from them by the date they suggested they'd contact you, you might wait for several days and then call or email your contact at the company just to see what is happening next.

Carl Mueller

My name is Carl Mueller and I'd like to thank you for learning a bit more about me!

I feel that I have numerous relevant experiences during my career that come in useful when helping people with their careers:

I know what it’s like to work internationally, having worked overseas (in New Zealand, from 1994-1998).

I've survived several corporate downsizings while many of my colleagues were being laid off.

I have also experienced being laid off twice myself during corporate downsizings.

I know what it’s like to be self-employed.

I've helped many people find better jobs. I started to work as a professional recruiter in 2000 first as an Information Technology (IT) recruiter and then in general recruitment across many industries including IT, manufacturing and marketing. Since this time, I have helped many people find their dream career and it’s a great feeling.

I experienced one of the slowest hiring periods in recent memory especially during the general hiring slowdown that followed the Y2K frenzy in 1999, the bursting of the dot com bubble in early 2000, and then the employment market bottoming out following September 11, 2001.

These were certainly not great times to be a job searcher in most industries nor was it a particularly good time to be a recruiter.

Following this, I began running the day to day operations of an Internet-based company in early 2003 that focused on developing online software and subscription-based websites for consumers. It was then that I fully realized the power, usefulness and potential of the Internet which really spurred me to set up my own website which you can view in my Personal URL section below this bio.

I’m also a Platinum Ezine Articles Expert as recognized by EzineArticles.com, one of the most visited websites on the Internet. This special designation is earned by having consistently high-quality articles published and viewed on their website. All of my submissions are related to helping you find your dream career and many of my articles get reproduced on other websites by their webmasters.

Good luck with your career and I hope I have been of assistance to you!