Is it necessary to follow-up after an interview?

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Jerome A. Cole, MA
Director of College Counseling, The Edmund Burke School
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Jerome A. Cole, M.A., is the Director of College Counseling for the Edmund Burke school in Washington, D.C. and the founder of Cole Educational Consulting Services (Cole ECS.) He has worked with students and families for over seven years to help them plan and strategize for college. As a college counselor at Burke, an independent college preparatory high school founded in 1968, Mr. Cole oversees a program that is designed to support students and families as they go through the selection and admission process for college. Mr. Cole advises over 100 students each year in a small academically challenging environment where every senior is expected to apply to and enroll in college. Prior to Burke, he was a school counselor at Bethesda-Chevy Chase high school in Montgomery County, Maryland. He has successfully counseled hundreds of students and helped them prepare for admission to a variety of schools such as: American University, Clark-Atlanta University, Davidson College, George Washington University, Harvard University, Pitzer College, Stanford University, Temple University, and the University of Maryland at College Park, to highlight just a few. He established the consulting firm Cole ECS to provide students and families with the necessary information and support to make the best choice for college. Cole ECS defines the best choice as the optimal learning and social environment to ensure a student’s holistic success, culminating in on-time or early graduation and desirable post-graduate options. Mr. Cole earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Catholic University, and then went on to obtain a Master of Arts in Education and Human Development from George Washington University. He is certified as a school counselor and is a member of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors (NACAC).

Is it necessary to follow-up after an interview?

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Speaker: Is it necessary to follow-up after an interview?

Jerome Cole: I think at a minimum you want to acknowledge the person who interviewed you; go for short note, it could be an email, it could be a short thank you card. You don't want to go overboard, but just something that says, hey, thank you for the time; I appreciate the opportunity to come and talk to you about myself and about your school.

If you are asked the question during the course of the interview and you are not able to fully respond to that question, you might want to use a follow-up to go back and say, hey, I remember that particular question that you asked me, I wasn't able to give you a complete answer; here is my follow-up to that. So that kind of short communication with whoever it is that conducted the interview is probably appropriate, but nothing more than that.

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