What You Think About The Candidate Rejection Email
You had a great interview experience, see an email from the employer, and [🎶 da-da-da-dum] it’s the candidate rejection email.
What the ???
Things were going so well!
They really seemed to like me.
How can this be?
What You Need To Know About The Candidate Rejection Email
Organizations will reject you.
But they won’t reject you for all the reasons that you assume, like your lack of experience or because your resume didn’t stand out.
Organizations will reject you for several other reasons:
- They only posted the job because of company policy, but really had an internal person slated
- They met with you as a Plan B (in case that internal person didn’t take the job); but Plan A materialized
- Among all of their applicants, one miraculously had that unicorn asset – that person got the job
- They hired someone who had a close connection with a reputable person in the organization (#connections)
- They decided to change the requirements of the role
- They made organizational changes and determined they didn’t need the role afterall
- Budget got pulled and so did the job
Remember, it might not be you. It might be them.
Move on from The Candidate Rejection Email
Though the World Economic Forum predicted that by 2027 there will be a 2% net loss of jobs worldwide, that’s still accounts for 69 million new jobs by that year.
You can choose to wallow in rejection and defeat. That will be your recurring experience, especially if you put all your hopes into just one or two opportunities. Alternatively, you can embrace an abundance mindset knowing that your ideal job with the ideal team in your ideal culture hasn’t passed you by. Whichever mindset you choose, understand that there are plenty of opportunities with your name on it. You just haven’t met them yet.
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