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Follow up

Meaning in job interviews & careers, with examples

phrasal verbCore term

In job interviews & careers, follow up means: To contact someone again after an interview, application or meeting to ask for news or to add more information.

In Turkish: durumu sormak, takip etmek, dönüş istemek

How it is used

Candidates follow up on an application or with a recruiter, usually by email. The noun is written follow-up: a follow-up email, a follow-up call. Recruiters also say 'I'll follow up with the hiring manager.'

Example sentences

  1. I'm just following up on my application for the sales role.

  2. A week after the interview, I followed up with a short email to the recruiter.

Common collocations

  • follow up on an application
  • follow up with a recruiter
  • follow-up email
  • follow-up call
  • hear backTo receive a reply or news from someone, especially after you have applied for a job or had an interview.
  • recruiterA person whose job is to find and select people for jobs, either inside a company's HR team or at an external agency.
  • applicationA formal request for a job, or the set of documents and forms you send to an employer when you make that request.
  • rejectionA decision by an employer not to offer you a job or not to move you to the next stage, or the message telling you this.

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