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[tinyzombie]

I am pretty sure that once you are invited to campus, that whether or not you sent a thank you note after a phone interview is irrelevant.

I did not mean to suggest a direct connection between phone interview thank you notes and job search success. Instead, I wondered if your dismissal of thank you notes and/or social skills somehow translated to a more general attitude that surfaces during your campus visits.  Are you consistently getting campus visits but not job offers? 

This is one of the biggest leaps of logic I have seen on these fora.

"And/or social skills"? Please.

What is it with the holier-than-thou-ness today?

[scampster]

I am pretty sure that once you are invited to campus, that whether or not you sent a thank you note after a phone interview is irrelevant.

I did not mean to suggest a direct connection between phone interview thank you notes and job search success. Instead, I wondered if your dismissal of thank you notes and/or social skills somehow translated to a more general attitude that surfaces during your campus visits.  Are you consistently getting campus visits but not job offers? 

This is one of the biggest leaps of logic I have seen on these fora.

"And/or social skills"? Please.

What is it with the holier-than-thou-ness today?

Scion, you apparently didn't read the beginning of my post where I said I mostly write thank you notes.

[scion]

Scion, you apparently didn't read the beginning of my post where I said I mostly write thank you notes.

Scampster, I'm not sure, but I think I forgot to take my meds this morning.

[leobloom]

Well, on my last week's phone interview, I thanked the SC vigorously for the interview right at the end. I didn't feel necessary to send a thank-you e-mail to the chair, considering I was pretty clear in my attitude already.

But again, I'm still waiting to hear from them, so I can't really tell what weight this had or an e-mail would have had on the outcome. My universe collapsed a few days ago while reading another thread and realizing the lack of formal feedback during the academic job search process. Makes sense, but in the same manner as the non-existence of Santa Claus.

[madhatter]

I've never paid any attention to thank you notes from candidates. As a candidate myself, I stopped sending them years ago, and it didn't stop me from getting offers.