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The Follow Up Email

They said they'd get back to you in a week or two. You're getting antsy. That's okay, you're just excited. You want to make that new career transition and you want to keep that movtivation and momentum going. You've kept applying to other jobs in the meantime, but you want to know if you got the job or not, so you can move on mentally.

Write a follow up email. I just wrote one (with the help of BowTiedCyberGPT of course).

Here is my follow up email I sent at 8:03am this morning:

"Hi [Director of HR],

I hope you’re doing well. I wanted to thank you again for the opportunity to interview for the Service Desk Technician role on September 5th. I really enjoyed our conversation and I’m very excited about the possibility of contributing to your team.

It was mentioned that decisions would likely be made within a week or two, so I just wanted to follow up and ask if there are any updates you can share. Please let me know if there’s anything further I can provide to assist in the decision-making process.

Thank you again for your time and consideration. I look forward to hearing from you.

Talk soon,

Devon"

I got a reply at 9:32am:

"Hello Devon,

Thank you for following up. We are still assessing candidates and it’s taking a little longer than we expected.

Kind regards,"

I then sent a short reply back, just to end the email-loop:

"Thanks so much for the update, [Name]. I appreciate you letting me know, and I’ll look forward to hearing back once things are settled.

Have a great week,

-Devon"

As far as I can tell I'm still being considered for the role. Fingers crossed.

I heard that September is the busiest month for IT hiring. The best thing we can do is be patient, keep applying to jobs, and send follow up emails when the timing is right (not too soon, and not too long after the interview, I'll let you and a GPT figure out the best timing for that).

Good luck.

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