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How to Use Reframing to Move From Rejection to Resiliency
What my most recent job rejection has taught me.
“We appreciate your patience while the team reviewed your application. While the team was very impressed….”
You know how this sentence ends if you’ve ever been rejected from a job application. I could have cut it off at ‘while,’ and you likely would have known what was coming.
It’s never fun coming to terms with rejection; however, sometimes, it’s unavoidable.
Today, for example, I got the pleasure of facing rejection as I stirred from bed. As I groggily silenced my alarm and did my routine morning email scroll, I was met with a standard rejection email from a recruiter for a role I’ve spent the last month researching, applying for, and interviewing for.
It was a role I was genuinely excited about, which made the rejection sting a little extra.
My immediate reaction was anger and confusion.
Angry.
Why did I spend so much time and effort on my application for this result? I was angry that the recruiter had taken weeks to get back to me at a time, answered so few of my questions, and so casually and backhandedly let me know I was no longer in consideration.
