Post client interview behaviour - email follow up/linkedin request?

[Old Greg]

To show he can look things up like the rest of us do. Everyone I have ever worked with - including me - does it.

I guess also to feel that you've got some closure having made an arse of yourself.

[tractor]

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To be honest, I generally try to find the client on Linked In beforehand.

BUT, do you invite them after the interview - or is that a bit stalker-ish or would you think it as being keen on the role? Difficult one.

To be honest, if it was me doing the recruiting I'd be wary if I hadn't made a decision. Opens yourself up to being contacted by non-successful candidates hassling you as to why you didn't pick them.

Also, always found the idea of sending interviewers a thank you letter afterwards a bit cringey and north american. Maybe Im wrong.

Stalking/guessing an interviewers email and doing likewise is also a bit strange isnt it?

Theres showing willingness and being keen and there's being a bit weird IMHO.

TBH, everything after your first sentence smacks of desperation. Use the time productively to seek more interviews/opportunities.

The only time I have ever added someone before starting a role is when I have had a tel interview for very urgent requirements and been given a start on the spot. That was so a mutual exchange of ideas and documents could be made in the 3 days before start time.

[jmo21]

I personally wouldn't send a LI to a potential client contact until I'd got the role AND actually started on site after a few weeks properly getting to know people.

Too creepy otherwise.

On the flip side, in June, I sent my CV speculatively directly to a small software house, interviewed, got offered a contract 2 days later with a call from the MD.

I had however just (as in 10 minutes before the phone call) been offered and accepted a role through an agency with a big company. It was the one I really wanted, better for CV, and more money so had to politely decline the small companies offer.

Left it on good enough terms I felt, but thought I'd maybe burnt that bridge. It had been me who had contacted them and while you do have to look after yourself, I thought maybe they'd be a bit miffed.

The next day after knocking them back, the MD sent me a LI request so hopefully at some point in the future maybe I'll do some work with them after all.

[d000hg]

thanks aoxo. But to be honest, on a scale of 1 - 1000 rating opinions I care about.

Friends, family, 'real' colleagues score near the top.

My cat does quite well too.

But random strangers on the internet who I've never met don't even break double figures.

If our opinions are of such little merit, why do you insist on asking for them?

[Old Greg]

If our opinions are of such little merit, why do you insist on asking for them?

Is that one for PC, or can anyone answer it?

[d000hg]

Is that one for PC, or can anyone answer it?

PC is the most vociferous for opinions so I thought he could have first crack at it.

[Old Greg]

PC is the most vociferous for opinions so I thought he could have first crack at it.

OK. If he gets it wrong, we'll pass it over to NLUK for a bonus point.

[d000hg]

OK. If he gets it wrong, we'll pass it over to NLUK for a bonus point.

He seems to have chosen to post new threads instead of answer the question.

[kal]

If the interview went well and think the guy was ok, and not some egotistical moron. I always throw an invite at him. nine times out of ten they accept.

-----> It gives the interviewer a chance to have a look at your profile and also see what connections you have in common. If he has any sense he will follow up with an informal reference <------

I do this whenever I meet with a potential customer and yes that includes non-contract interviews.

Nothing weird about it at all.

On another note LI is turning more and more into Facebook every day, got an email the other day inviting me to wish happy birthday to a contact FFS

[psychocandy]

i ask for opinions because i am interested in what people think. what im not interested in is people who think they know it all and choose to throw around personal opinions and abuse.

seems a bit obvious to me really.