One thing that I think is present here but perhaps not stated forcefully enough is that there should always been a better way to message than a bare bones “sorry, you were not accepted” rejection. I’m not entirely sure if I agree with your analysis, but given my lack of experience on the other side I wish to bunt on that to say that the least you can do is provide general feedback. It really sucks to not get any feedback on a rejection for an application you thought might make it somewhere. Here’s a few things that have made for good rejections in my experience:
Listing the number of spots and number of applicants
Providing general characteristics of applications that were successful, and noting trends in those that were unsuccessful if possible
Giving resources one can engage with to possibly become a competitive applicant in the future (i.e. sending someone who got rejected from a role in Nuclear research to Aird’s compilation of nuclear research questions, and encouraging them to engage with them)
Post forthcoming on my thoughts on this from an extensive end user side, but thanks for opening up dialogue, much appreciated.
One thing that I think is present here but perhaps not stated forcefully enough is that there should always been a better way to message than a bare bones “sorry, you were not accepted” rejection. I’m not entirely sure if I agree with your analysis, but given my lack of experience on the other side I wish to bunt on that to say that the least you can do is provide general feedback. It really sucks to not get any feedback on a rejection for an application you thought might make it somewhere. Here’s a few things that have made for good rejections in my experience:
Listing the number of spots and number of applicants
Providing general characteristics of applications that were successful, and noting trends in those that were unsuccessful if possible
Giving resources one can engage with to possibly become a competitive applicant in the future (i.e. sending someone who got rejected from a role in Nuclear research to Aird’s compilation of nuclear research questions, and encouraging them to engage with them)
Post forthcoming on my thoughts on this from an extensive end user side, but thanks for opening up dialogue, much appreciated.