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The "conventional thinking" advice to candidates is indeed to
send each interviewer a separate thank-you that revisits some
key point of your discussion with that person. At the very
least, I would think you'd want to do this for the person who
is going to be your boss.
I can only speak for myself on this point, but if I was one
of a panel of interviewers for a position I was not the hiring
manager for and I received a thank-you note from a candidate
that was addressed to multiple interviewers, I would not be
put off by it.
I agree with the thank you note, but having been on both sides of
multiple
interviewer teams, I wonder whether the standard is to send individual
thank
you notes? At one previous company, it seemed like for every writing
position, potential interviewees had to run the gauntlet with 4-6 mini
interviews consisting of 1-3 people in each one. Sending 4 thank you
notes
is fine. Sending 15 seems excessive (but I think that speaks just as
much to
the necessity of 15 people interviewing a technical writer over a 4 hour
period). Thoughts?
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