I’ve noticed something that is not immediately obvious – rejections without explanations can be supremely helpful.
Imagine you are applying for a job, or for funding for a project of yours. You are confident going in – everything seems to be in place, and you are sure you will get accepted. But then you get rejected. The first question you will ask is : why? You want to know from the person exactly why you were unsuitable.
If the other party, however, does not give any reasons why you were rejected, this can be valuable to you. When people get rejected, they tend to reevaluate their initial concept under very critical eyes. What seemed perfect going in now seems riddled with flaws that could have been responsible for the rejection. The scales fall of their project and they can see it clearly. They fall out of love, and suddenly the lines on their lovers face are visible, and the once charming idiosyncrasies have become ugly flaws.
Being rejected without explanation allows people re-see their project and potentially abandon it or change it into something better. Being rejected with explanations gives them false hope – they focus then on only that small flaw that was pointed out to them and think fixing it would solve the problem.
But often, the explanation given is diplomatic and designed not to burn bridges, it’s not actual helpful advice that one can work on. So a rejection *with* reason can unnecessarily extend a project that should rightfully be dead. Or it could cause an over-focus on this one area, and all of the other flaws that were not listed in the reason (like personality flaws), go completely unworked on.
Getting rejected without reason is the best type of rejection, because it forces you to improve all aspects of your project. For a while, it allows you think and actually understand the problem. That’s because you’ll discover the problem by yourself.
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Your conclusion presumes that the project/thing-being-pitched is in need of improvement at all. Often, it isn't – especially to your opening statement – with respect to employment. When you're looking to fit two things together (relationships, employment, etc.) it's not there is need to "change" per se, it's that the fit just isn't there – cultural, technical skills, etc.
Furthermore, it's often policy to not communicate the reason for rejection for legal (or social) reasons. It could be something as simple as a skill mismatch (for jobs) or a funding amount mismatch (for investment) but you'll never know.
And then you go off and retool your resume/pitch/etc. with no direction or sense of purpose because it could be anything wrong.
This is obviously wrong – you would not begin retooling your pitch based on no information.
(oops, forgot to auth – the "Your conclusion presumes…" comment was mine)
But think about it – if they tell you that the reason was "culture mismatch", what can you do about it? Nothing. But if you re-examine your resume and make it nicer, well, for the next job you have a nicer resume.
If the problem is potentially fixable, your introspection could catch it. Or you could ask someone else, and they could tell you.
I reject the notion that there is nothing you can do if it is a culture mismatch, portfolio mismatch, etc. Let’s say you dream of working at two companies or getting investment from two VC firms. From your outsider perspective, it is difficult to tell if the firm is a fit for your interests and objectives. Being focused on your perceived fit, you might be persistent – all for a lost cause.
Feedback allows people to grow, unless they don’t want to grow. I’ve seen what happens to people and organizations that avoid direct feedback and it is never pretty.
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