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Juniors — What To Do When You Get Rejected

Erik Andersen
5 min readAug 4, 2022

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You study hard
You build a portfolio
You spend weeks going through practice questions
You tweak your resume endlessly to perfection

And you submitted the resume! You got the interview. The interview is now over! And….

Thank you for your consideration but we've decided to move forward with another candidate at this time

*Sigh*

Your budding anticipation now devolves into tepid apathy. Fighting to keep the depression at bay, you vent to a friend about late-stage capitalism and corporate greed before…

Starting the process all over again… 😓

What Do You Do Now?

Most people approach job hunting like a numbers game (In many ways it is), but there’s much more in your favor than you think. A rejection doesn’t have to be the end of the line!

After all, you already know your skill set matched enough of what they were looking for to get that interview (which is probably not true for other candidates).

So here are some other plays you can make

Find out WHY you were rejected

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Erik Andersen
Erik Andersen

Written by Erik Andersen

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience. Also an independent coach, teacher, and public speaker. My opinions are my own

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