Hey, everybody, it's Andy, back for another week to help you build a career you love.
Today we're going to talk about how to get that job after being rejected.
That's right.
This is for all of you that have gone through an interviewing process.
You felt you were a great fit for the company and role only to get that phone call or that
email telling you you didn't get the job.
What are you going to do?
Well, this story was inspired recently by three people who used this very technique
I'm going to give you with great success.
It started about a month or so ago.
I got an email from a woman.
She was new to my community.
Anytime you subscribe to my blog or download something from my YouTube channel or my blog,
you get a welcome email that says, "Welcome to my community.
This is me.
Tell me about you.
Tell me what issues you're facing."
A lot of people respond.
This particular woman said, "Andy, I wish I would have found you a month ago.
I just went through this interviewing process, and I found out today that I didn't get the
job.
So I hopped on YouTube, and I discovered you.
I've been watching some of your videos, and I downloaded this template.
I'm just wondering, do you think there's anything I can do to convince the employer that I'm
still a great fit for the role and that they should hire me?"
I thought, "Okay."
I responded to her and I said, "Here's what I would do," and off that email went.
A couple days later I got virtually the same email from another gentlemen.
He said, "Andy, I just done with an interviewing process.
I discovered I was not selected.
So I hopped onto YouTube.
I've been watching your interview playlist, and I think I'm going to take in your interviewing
webinar.
Thank you for all you do."
That was it.
So I said, "Hmm, if this happened recently, why don't you try this?" and I sent him the
same message.
About a week goes by and one of the students in my job search boot camp texted me and she
said, "Andy, is there anything I can do to save this?"
She took an email that she just got from a company she was interviewing with.
She pasted the email into the text.
It said, "Mary Jo, we loved you.
We really had a great time meeting you.
We thought you're a great candidate.
We were really just looking for somebody who had more experience working with larger organizations."
I was heading to a meeting.
I hop in my car.
I give her a call.
I leave her a voicemail and I say, "Here's what I would say."
Two hours later she emails me back and she says, "Andy, you're amazing.
I have an interview on Tuesday."
A couple days more goes by and I get emails from the first two people both telling me
they'd gotten jobs.
The woman got the job she was interviewing for, and the guy got a different job with
the company.
I thought at that moment this is a thing.
This is something I need to share with my community, so I'm packaging it up and giving
it to you today.
Before I give you the exact script that I gave them, I want to give you a little perspective
about this situation.
I always want to tell you what not to do, and then I'll tell you exactly what to do.
The first thing you have to realize is regardless of what the employer tells you, and I'm not
saying employers are lying at all, but you could be in the beginning of the interviewing
process and they might be holding out for someone they think is perfect in which case
they might say, "Hey, you're just not the perfect fit," and genuinely mean that at that
time.
So off you go and then their process goes on.
But all of a sudden they start looking at other candidates, and you start looking pretty
good.
You start looking pretty good.
Or maybe you were in a pile of candidates.
They thought they liked somebody better.
Maybe they moved on with that person.
They discovered they didn't or maybe they gave that person an offer.
The person didn't take it.
Or maybe they gave the person an offer.
The person took the job but didn't do so well and quit or got let go.
This stuff happens quite often.
Sometimes doing nothing but standing still and being silent you can do an awful lot to
make yourself look a lot better.
I just want you to know that there's many things that are going on behind the scenes
so just keep that mind.
Just keep that in mind.
Now, what I don't want you to do is when you find out that you've been rejected, I don't
want you to call up the employer and ranting and trying to convince them that they don't
know what they're doing, or they don't know what they're thinking, or they didn't get
all the information that they needed.
That ship has sailed.
Don't do anything like that or send any kind of email that's going to make you look defensive.
At this moment it's vital that you do something classy, and you leave them with the impression
that they made a smart move to interview you in the first place.
So here's exactly what I would do.
It's kind of like a thank you, slash, cover letter combo of a communication that leaves
them with a wonderful impression of you and leaves the door open for consideration.
Here's what I want you to do.
I want you to send an email to both the hiring official and the HR person or recruiter or
whoever was quarterbacking your recruiting process.
I want you to send it to both of them.
"I want to thank you both for considering me for ..." whatever the position was.
Then give them a compliment.
"I loved meeting you and your wonderful team.
You can see how this team will be successful and so forth."
It's just something to warm them up.
Then what I would say is, here's where you want to reiterate why you're the best person
for the role, "While I feel I would be a strong candidate and fit for the company and this
position because ..." whatever the reason is, just insert why you feel you'd be the
best person for the job, "I genuinely respect your opinion that you know what is best for
your team and your organization."
Stop.
Then I would cap it off with, "If anything with this position changes or you feel I would
be a suitable candidate for other roles in your company, I would be happy to come back
for additional consideration.
Thank you very much."
Your name.
Sign it off and put that little final cap on it.
Go out with some class.
Trust me when I tell you, that will do much more for you than trying to be defensive or
at this point trying to convince them of something that they'd don't feel convinced of.
You leave this little doubt in their mind that they let such a classy person go.
That will do wonders for you.
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