Dealing With a Job Interview Rejection

If you are in the interview process, you should prepare yourself for potential dissappointment as well as success. There will be times when a company strings you along, neglects to offer feedback and ghosts you. It is easy to accuse the companies of being cold and harsh. However, they are in a tight spot. It's hard to hire when there is so much uncertainty. Businesses don’t want to onboard new personnel only to terminate their employment a month or two later. It's logical for the companies to take a wait-and-see approach.

Businesses will post job listings and interview people to hedge their bets. Although, this may be merely performative. They are listing jobs online to make it look like the company is doing well, while simultaneously appeasing workers to make them believe they’ll get some much-needed help. Meanwhile, the job hunter will naively believe that the companies want to hire quickly. They become crestfallen when they realize that the market is slow-moving.

Don’t Take It Personally

It may be cold comfort, but you are not the only one going through an arduous job search. To put things into perspective, getting ghosted or not chosen for a role is the brutal aspect of the interview process.

It's hard to do, but avoid taking it personally. Being passed over isn’t an indictment of your skills and abilities; you just may not be in the right place at the right time. There could be others who possess a more on-point background. Sometimes, nepotism or knowing the right person comes into play. Or the job may never be filled because the company is only building a pipeline for the future.