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Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
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Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
#32Getting turned down always feels shitty, but I try hard to not take it personally.
The whole you rejected me, but haha I'm better off comes across as pretty self-centered and entitled.
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Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
#33Getting turned down always feels shitty, but I try hard to not take it personally. The whole you rejected me, but haha I'm better off comes across as pretty self-centered and entitled. -edit- removed question,more
I read this as "we were rejected but it worked out ok, so don't feel too discouraged if you have a bad interview"
Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
#34I'm a recruiter and I sometimes say that "recruiting is the business of rejection". At any given moment I might have between 5 to 20 possible jobs that I'm searching for people for. In a given week I might receive 1,000 applicants. It is incredibly hard to get anyone into a job and often great people are rejected for various reasons. The Business of Rejection - that's recruiting.
Reject all you want, but at least be classy about it. A vast amount of empirical data suggests that recruiters are very, very bad at this. And many companies, when engaging candidates directly, aren't much better.
Dude I couldn't imagine telling a hopeful young person that they didn't get the job. Do you tell them why, so hopefully they can take that info and grow from it, or do you make something up so they don't feel like shit?
Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
#35Getting turned down always feels shitty, but I try hard to not take it personally. The whole you rejected me, but haha I'm better off comes across as pretty self-centered and entitled. -edit- removed question,more
I read this as "we were rejected but it worked out ok, so don't feel too discouraged if you have a bad interview"
Ok I like that, its just the term rejection has a common us versus them connotation in the US.
Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
#36Being rejected a few times this week, this makes me feel a bit better. For one interview ... my brain decided to take the day off ... nerves I guess ... it was not pretty. Any who (sic) ... the show must go on ... back at it tomorrow morning wish me the best.
Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
#37Getting turned down always feels shitty, but I try hard to not take it personally. The whole you rejected me, but haha I'm better off comes across as pretty self-centered and entitled. -edit- removed question,more
It's celebrating small to big time failures... that's what startup land is all about and these people are working at the biggest startups on the planet.
Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
#38Getting turned down always feels shitty, but I try hard to not take it personally. The whole you rejected me, but haha I'm better off comes across as pretty self-centered and entitled. -edit- removed question,more
It's celebrating small to big time failures... that's what startup land is all about and these people are working at the biggest startups on the planet.
lol most of them work for Twitter, which is no longer a start up. But yea I see that now, I just centered in on the more negative ones that loaded in first for me. I realize they are random now.
Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I read this as "we were rejected but it worked out ok, so don't feel too discouraged if you have a bad interview"
Ok I like that, its just the term rejection has a common us versus them connotation in the US.
Creator here. Sorry if that wasn't clear! I only meant this to be inspiring for people to "keep trying" even when they face rejection!
Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's celebrating small to big time failures... that's what startup land is all about and these people are working at the biggest startups on the planet.
lol most of them work for Twitter, which is no longer a start up. But yea I see that now, I just centered in on the more negative ones that loaded in first for me. I realize they are random now.
I think that's just because I work at Twitter so most of the early contributions were coworkers! :D