Did I completely ruin my chances of getting this job?

It happens to all of us. In fact, I think the same thing happened to me years ago. Take a few deep breaths. The fact is, if you do not get the job, you will most likely not know the reason. Just keep applying for jobs. If you get this job, you can joke about this typo once you have been working there for awhile.

Also, you have probably already changed your email configurations so this will not happen again.

As a former hiring manager, the error would not have done any harm for your chances at our company. It would have provided a chuckle, and the follow-up to acknowledging the mistake is appreciated.

Any good hiring manager will look beyond a simple mistake caused in a situation like this. There was one applicant that threw up in the VP’s trash can during the interview, and yet we still hired him, based upon his history and the reference checks. He became a valued employee, and if we had overlooked him for this one incident, it would have been our loss. He still got teased about it from us though.

No, that shouldn’t hurt your chances at all.

@Bill_Lumbergh The person reading the Thank you is human. He/she is most likely understanding of the fact that you a)want the job b)are a bit anxious/nervous about it.

Here’s a personal tip: Don’t sweat the small stuff and it’s all small stuff

send another email saying and oh by the way as you may have noticed I have a unique sense of humor as well !

In the place where I used to work, my boss would actually laugh and make a rude comment at anyone’s resume where there was a word spelled incorrectly. Then he would tear up their resume and throw it away. Unfortunately, I think he discounted a lot of good people by doing that, but it does happen and probably more often than you’d think. Some bosses just want you to play the game.

As long as you were not applying for an editing job, I think you are OK.

Would you want a job that wouldnt hire someone because of a typo?

I have just been ploughing through a huge pile of resumes and applications for different advertised jobs. Many had typos, errors and one referred to position in a different part of the organisation and the applicant hadn’t edited their application well enough.

If it was one or two minor typos or something, I ignored the errors. If the application was quite poor in terms of editing, I put it in the no pile.

I have read that some people will discount any application with a typo in any part of the paperwork but I think those people would be rare. I would certainly not discount you if you had met the job requirements sufficiently to be called for an interview. I think you will just fine. Let us know how you go and try to forget about it (I know that feeling when you go “oh shit!! Why didn’t I spot that BEFORE I hit send!!!” And it is always that really important document that it happens to!

Most people do not follow up after interviews. Even if you pointed out a quality and immediately made a mistake it’s normal. I never met a person who wasn’t wrong about some things even when they said they mastered a particular thing.

From the title, I thought you had accidentally left some disparaging remark. A good letter with one typo? Should not be a prob.