Recruiters reject candidates for vague reasons

“They liked you. But. They just didn't like you enough. And they didn't like you more than the guy they did hire. [re: Got an email from a recruiter so absurd it made me laugh out loud]”

“About 6 YOE looking for my next role. Frankly I've been shocked at the sheer number of recruiters reaching out to me, but it's been tough and mentally draining. Lots of ghosting, lots of rejection, but I'm still happy that I've been landing interviews. I've been interviewing for this small but rapidly growing company. Same thing I've heard from many recruiters, new big investment, rapidly growing, looking to hire a lot of people, etc. After FOUR rounds I was waiting to he”

“I work in recruiting and i'm writing this because the feedback candidates get is almost never the real reason. When a company tells you it's a location issue, it's usually one of two things: either they're not set up to legally employ someone in your country, or the cost of getting that sorted is more than they want to spend on the hire. So the candidate never finds out which one it was because the feedback is always going with someone local. I've seen us go with a weaker can”

“I had the same experience last year. Reach out to small firms because those guys usually need bodies and are more likely to be willing to actually train you compared to the big firms”

“It's not a lose/lose but there are many ways to do things wrong and only several ways to do them right. When rejecting someone, a timely email with some semblance of reasoning basically puts you in the top 1% of recruiters worldwide.”

“100% disagree. I hate recruiters as much as the next guy, trust me, but calling to give a rejection is a very polite way of delivering the news and it's far more dignified than a copy and pasted email template”

And they are all confused about nobody is wanting to take the role

“Live and learn. I really wanted the position, and the other interviewers were shocked, but stayed quiet. I wouldn't find out until later how much of a sociopath this guy is.”

“This might be kind of a bold move but I've just started being 100% honest with this question. "Because I've been here for too long and there is literally no room to grow" I'm half joking but I think somebody would have to die before they even thought about giving anybody on my team more opportunities to do anything.”

“The recruiter typically wants to be sure that if he/she presents you to a client that you won’t make them look bad and get them fired. The answer you give them will probably be very similar to the answer you would give during an interview. If the person is going to give an answer they know will piss off the client, better to know now and go from there.”

“With more than a decade long experience, I always guide that it's easy to put real effort into telling someone good news. Much harder to do a rejection call well, especially when you're doing several in one afternoon. The ones I've seen genuinely build a reputation over time are the ones who never let that second call feel like an afterthought. It's a small discipline but it compounds over a career I feel. submitted by /u/Emergency-Bison-672 [link] [comments]”

“Location being a main one, employers mostly want people local who can start asap. They see this as needing to come here, find housing, get set up, all can be risky and time consuming from an employer POV.”

“I've told this to a friend, but sometimes being a little more firm and assertive does a person better than being accommodating or conflict-avoidant. This would definitely be one of those cases. Counterintuitively, sometimes the person respects you more if you push back against insults, bullying, or unreasonable demands. That is an insulting and unreasonable question for a recruiter to ask, and even if standing up for yourself changes the recruiter's tune, you'll probably not want to”

“Honestly, they’re all things you would think of. The most common reason we reject people is because they’re very unqualified. I think it would surprise a lot of people just how few of the applicants actually meet most of the requirements. I’m talking people with 2 years of retail experience applying for senior accountant roles. The HMs I work with will pretty frequently tell us to keep very good candidates “warm” because they’re afraid of choosing too early. We’d always eventually get back to th”

“Thanks for sharing! I also wanted to ask, when and if you got rejected, how long before you tried again? How much preparation did you put in for rebuttals? I'm about to start my own recruitment business and I'm not a BD person now however, I am the one that executed on the roles that I got. I did BD in another country which was easier for me back then. Im nervous about gojng back to it now after many years, in another country. But I am doing this for many reasons including my child.”

“I just got rejected after a recruiter screening. I am hoping you can offer perspectives since my therapist didn't quite convince me otherwise. The recruiter was friendly and professional, I thought it went well, and told me what to expect the next step. Then the rejection email arrived 2 days later. I’m fine with dating rejection. But job rejection? I really have a hard time with it. I could dwell on it for weeks, thinking about what I could have done wrong. Intellectually, I understand that”

“If there's anything that's changed about me in the last year it's that I fucking love being rejected now. Rejection used to scare me in all parts of life, but now I'm more free than ever to just say fuck it and try shit. I've been turned down so much that it's just become one of my favorite surprises in my day. Perfect fit job that "went with other candidates"? Hell yeah, tell me more about how I'm not good enough. Hilarious backpedaling email telling me to”