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This rejection letter arrived 5 years after the actual application/search process. That seems excessively long. What do you think: 1. b...

Sad but apparently true, though I hope it wasn't recently true and I hope the administrators concerned all ended up spending their days...

A late but great entry! Dear Applicant, Thank you for your interest in our advertised position. I am very sorry to announce that aft...

Short and not sweet, from Eli Rabett: ******************** You lose The Search Committee

Would you want to get a letter like this? (Too?) Much Information Letter Dear [applicant name], We received 154 applications for our ...

--> Here are two more beautiful examples of the genre, each crazy-making in their own special way.  (By the way, I am not s...

Here are two entries in the Rejection Letter writing contest , including one (the first one) that is based on a real letter that may (or ma...

Telling people (by letter, e-mail, or voice) that they are not getting a position for which they applied, or are not even being considered ...

The title really should be: How to reject when you're rejecting. Lately there has been a deluge of email in my inbox with questions ab...

The title of this post is also from song lyrics; in fact, by the same artistes who provided the title of yesterday's post. Their lyrics...

The results of Friday's poll are quite encouraging, I think. More than 75% say that they have gotten better at handling criticism, reje...

Following on yesterday's post, which raised the issue of confidence (including fear of rejection, mentioned in the comments) when decid...

A few times since I have been a journal editor or guest editor, authors of rejected manuscripts have written angry e-mails railing against t...

A few years ago, some colleagues and I pitched a 'high-risk' idea to program directors at a funding agency. The program directors we...

Does anyone else feel that the standards for achieving something -- a position, an award etc. -- change when you accomplish that thing? Tha...

A reader writes with a query about some manuscripts that were rejected without review; in one case the summary rejection was sort of underst...

The title is a lame attempt at referring to the famous 1975 New York Daily News headline (Ford to City: etc.) and is my way of introducing ...

This may sound strange, but I was recently very relieved to get a negative review of a manuscript. Although it is quite possible that I have...

The past year has been a rather busy one for me for editing manuscripts, proposals, and other documents written by my students. It pleases m...

Most professors who advise graduate students have had one or more students who did not do well, for whatever reason. I use the vague phrase ...