Question

Draft a letter to be sent to the 5 candidates who interviewed for a job opening in your department, but were not selected. All candidates had excellent resumes and all were well suited to the position, however they were not selected. You would, however, like to keep their information on file to consider them for potential openings. Write a letter - in as much detail as you feel is necessary - to explain the situation to them.

Answer 1

[Date]

[Applicant Name]

[Applicant Address]

Dear [Applicant], Thank you for your application to [program name]. We sincerely appreciate your time and interest in this field. We have considered your highly qualified application, however, our screening process was very rigorous and Unfortunately, we are unable to offer you a position at this time

Your application has been retained in our database and we would like to contact you in the future if any vacancy arises in the same field. If you do not wish to be considered for future vacancies, please let us know as we will erase your data from our database.

We wish you the best in the job hunt and we thank you for the interest that you have shown for the company and we thank you for your time. We hope that you are able to find another avenue which will satisfy your interests.

Sincerely,

[Name]

[Title]

[Program]