Templates
Follow-up emails for every point in a job search.
Pick your situation. Each template is short, honest and leaves brackets for anything only you know.
- Follow-up email after applying for a jobFive business days after you apply.
- Thank-you email after an interviewWithin 24 hours of the interview.
- Follow-up email after a phone screenThe same day or the next morning.
- Follow-up email when you have not heard back after an interviewOne or two days after the timeline they gave, or about a week if none.
- What to send when a recruiter ghosts youAfter two unanswered follow-ups.
- How to reply to a job rejection emailWithin a day or two of the rejection.
- Follow-up email after a career fairWithin two days of the event.
- Follow-up email after a referralAfter your contact passes your name along.
- Email to check on your application statusTwo weeks or more after applying with no reply.
- How to withdraw a job application by emailAs soon as you decide.
- Email asking for more time on a job offerBefore the offer deadline.
- Cold email to someone at a company you want to work forBefore or after you apply.