{"id":61,"date":"2006-05-31T05:57:55","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T10:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=61"},"modified":"2006-05-31T05:57:55","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T10:57:55","slug":"when-to-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/when-to-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"When to Follow Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salesandmarketing.com\/smm\/worklife\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002576088&#038;imw=Y\" target=\"_blank\">Application Etiquette<\/a> from Sales &#038; Marketing Management briefly provides some stats about when applicants should follow up after submitting their resume.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How long should a job applicant wait to follow up with the hiring manager after submitting a resume? <br clear=\"none\" \/>* 37 percent said one week or less <br clear=\"none\" \/><strong>* 45 percent said one to two weeks<\/strong> <br clear=\"none\" \/>* 9 percent said two to three weeks <br clear=\"none\" \/>* 3 percent said three weeks or more <br clear=\"none\" \/>* 5 percent said don&#8217;t follow up at all <br clear=\"none\" \/>* 1 percent said they didn&#8217;t know <br clear=\"none\" \/><br clear=\"none\" \/>What&#8217;s the best way to follow up? E-mail is the preferred follow up method, followed by telephone, and a handwritten note.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We see hiring through a sales perspective and have some distinct thoughts about this topic.  First off, our preference is to see salespeople pick up the telephone and call to respond to an employment ad.  This is good sales behavior.  It shows that they are confident in using the phone and, hopefully, are calling to qualify the position.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I am shocked that <em>2 weeks<\/em> is the preferred amount of time to wait before following up.  I would say that 1 week is long enough.  Again, we like to see good sales behavior in their follow up.  Are they timely?  Is their follow up professional?  How do they approach the reason for their call or email?  These are all valuable questions to address when searching for strong salespeople.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Application Etiquette from Sales &#038; Marketing Management briefly provides some stats about when applicants should follow up after submitting their resume. How long should a job applicant wait to follow up with the hiring manager after submitting a resume? * 37 percent said one week or less * 45 percent said one to two weeks * 9 percent said two to three weeks * 3 percent said three weeks or more * 5 percent said don&#8217;t follow up at all * 1 percent said they didn&#8217;t know What&#8217;s the best way to follow up? E-mail is the preferred follow up method, followed by telephone, and a handwritten note. We see&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/when-to-follow-up\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1842,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/01\/an-alternative-trend\/","url_meta":{"origin":61,"position":0},"title":"An Alternative Trend","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We get many press releases every day that mainly announce new products.\u00a0 However, I did get one from CareerBuilder.com that was fairly interesting.\u00a0 The topic is sales hiring in 2009 and, not surprisingly, many companies are going to be \"cautious.\" The format is basically a survey of 2009 trends and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring Salespeople&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring Salespeople","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/hiring-salespeople\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":562,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/typos-in-the-ad\/","url_meta":{"origin":61,"position":1},"title":"Typos In The Ad","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We posted about typos in resumes back in September and mentioned a significant survey result: Eighty-four percent of executives polled said it takes just one or two typographical errors in a resume to remove a candidate from consideration for a job opening; 47 percent said a single typo could be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":317,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/resume-errors\/","url_meta":{"origin":61,"position":2},"title":"Resume Errors","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"September 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Resumes have been a popular topic for us this week. 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