#rejection email

Lets be real, no candidate wants to hear they didn’t get the job. Nor do recruiters enjoy sending them. They are usually robotic sounding in nature, lifeless and cold. However you can inject more of a human voice into them if you spend a few minutes writing it correctly.

These tips are better for candidates who you personally interviewed vs the mass rejection email. You should have both kinds in your ATS.

First give them a warm thank you.

Bad: Thank you for applying to the [POSITION] at [COMPANY].

Good: We know there plenty of other companies who are hiring so we love that you chose us to apply.

Your goal is to show genuine appreciation for their efforts, not make it sound like a robot wrote it. Complimenting them offers a nice touch.

If you’re wondering about whether you should send a rejection email, it’s important to keep in mind that ignoring a rejected candidate could negatively impact your employer brand and sabotage your company’s candidate experience. Use this rejection email sample to build and maintain a relationship with your applicants.

What Should be Your Sales Rejection Email Response Strategy?

Nobody likes rejection yet we all know it’s part of a salesperson’s day-to-day. An agent who doesn’t get rejected is probably snoozing on the job! How one deals with rejection differentiates an upstart agent from the winning salesperson. Do you look at rejection as a closed door? Or, can you see the cracks that hint at a start of a business relationship? Look at a sales rejection email as a…

Probably the worst rejections I've gotten were from companies I didn't even feel excited about. This is a pretty open-and-shut case--I wasn't a good fit for this position, and HR sent me a polite and prompt rejection email. No harm, no foul. But it still doesn't make me feel confident in my search for a full-time job after graduation.

My name isn't Karina. 

This was just one of the many rejections I got back before I found the one that stuck. You don't need them all to say yes. You don't need them all to remember your name. You just need one.