After the interview

If you have the e-mail or mail contact of the interviewer, write a "thank you" note. That's a good occasion to:

1. thank the interviewer for his/her time and the interesting discussion you had.

2. Make him/her remember you better than the other 20 people s/he met that day.

3. Outline those things that, even though mentioned during the interview, did not make it to the front line of the discussion, but are still an advantage for your application. This is a bad moment, however, for bringing in new arguments: it will make you look unfair.

4. Remember the most important elements that make your application so valuable.

You should do that on the day of the interview, and in not more than 3-4 paragraphs.

The interview would not be such an stressful event, should you have the occasion to go through, say, 200 of them. Since this is not the case, intensive preparation will have to do. So do it carefully, it might be this interview that will get your future started.