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74 Nail the Job Interview!

45. Follow through with a telephone call when the deci-
sion date has passed.

Remember at the end of the interview you asked when a decision
would be made, and asked whether you could call if you hadn’t
heard within a couple of days of that date? Don’t just ask the
question and leave it at that - you must follow through. If the
decision date has passed you must male the follow-up call.
If no decision has yet been made, your call will remind them of
your continued interest. You also should impress the employer as
someone who does follow through, and he could expect this same
commitment from you as an employee. If the employer has made
a decision and was about to call and offer you the position, that’s
great! If someone else has been offered the job you may be disap-
pointed, but it is just as well to find out now and concentrate your
job search efforts elsewhere than to waste your time waiting to hear
about this job.

If you put all of these interview principles into practice, you will be in
an excellent position to get the job. You will approach the interview with
confidence, energy, and enthusiasm. You will impress the interviewer as
someone she would like to have working in the organization.
Let us now turn our attention to applying these principles to each step
in the interview process, from preparation to follow-up. The following
chapters elaborate on many of these previous principles. They address
questions you are likely to encounter.