Thank you but no

If you are looking for a job for a while now you probably heard this a lot then : “Dear…. Your skills and qualifications are so great, you are definitely number one. However, you most certainly don’t suit this position. We will let you know if any openings will arise in future…”, and they never come back.

It is very hard to stay positive at most of the times while looking for a job when redundant, specially, when all you hear is constant and loud “thank you, but NO”. Continuous anticipation of rejection can lead to the false believing that there is something wrong with you or your personality. Be sure it is not true! There is nothing wrong with you or with your personality. There 100 mil small details that may or may not influence your interview or CV screen check such as: today mood of HR persons, weather, or something as complicated as your nails or your knowledge in comparison to theirs.

I would like to share with you few examples from my personal or stories that I heard:

1) I passed successfully 3 stages of very difficult interview to big corporation. However, something went wrong and I was rejected on the fourth stage. I called HR asking to find our more details. That is what she said: “You are very good for the job. You have strong profile, etc. However, manager of this particular department feel you would not suit this job in his department. Again, you are very good for the job, but not for this department…” The only way I could interpret this – it was something personal that lady, who was interviewing me didn’t like. In fact HR called me later to ask me to go through interview to the same company, same job, but different department.

2) My friend was looking for new person along with his boss to his team. There were official requirements to the job, however, manager of the department had his own extra criteria that candidate had to match. It was need to be a man (because there were all girls in the department, so boss wanted to mix the crowd) and he need to support manager’s favorite football team. In fact new person was not as strongly skilled as some (females and males) candidates; however, boss is a boss.

3) One of the lad, who passed interview very successfully was on his way out from the office. When secretary asked him “which of the jackets is yours” he said “the one that is the best one”. Of course, guy was just joking. Unfortunately, potential employer didn’t share his scenes of humor and rejected him.

4) I passed one interview to the company of my dream, and thought I was getting closer…. However, they didn’t call me back again. As I found out later they decided don’t hire new person and just transferred work to different country.

Looking for a job it is hard process weather you have been made redundant, or simply can’t find job you like. Don’t get disappointed in yourself when you start to receive all those NO from potential employers. Because you never know all reasons for rejection, there is no point to blame yourself. Being rejected at interview or on CV screen it is just part of the process. The more you send CV the higher chance you have to win lotto called “new job”.

Please share how are you facing NO.