One of my medical sales candidates had a great interview and followed my advice to send a thank you note to the hiring manager as quickly as possible. I generally advise job candidates to email their thank you notes rather than mail them because hiring decisions are often made faster than a letter would arrive. BUT, you feel the thank you note on your iPhone and you made a mistake. After sending the note, she realized that she had misspelled a word and was devastated. That’s almost as bad as missing a word on your resume.
So, as her medical sales recruiter, I told her to go back to her computer and send another note:
“In my enthusiasm for the job, I wanted to send you a thank you note as soon as possible. However, I realized that I misspelled ________. I’m embarrassed. It’s not like me to make a mistake like that.” Etc. She ended the note on a positive note and continued the interview process. (In another situation, that would have left her a good candidate for that job. For a sales manager, someone who would be as careless in a job interview situation would likely be even more careless with customers.)
The moral of the story: Be enthusiastic and send your thank you notes quickly, but take a breather and spell check before sending them. And maybe you should write it down and send it through your email instead of texting it.