Even the most successful people have to deal with rejection from time to time. Best-selling author J.K. Rowling recently tweeted that she pinned her first rejection letter to her kitchen wall because ...

An 89-year-old rejection letter surfaced online this week that is breathtakingly brutal in how it totally dismantles any potential for the recipient to believe in his own worth. On Sunday, popular ...

A 1957 job rejection letter is causing a stir online because it awarded a rejected applicant with monetary compensation. 2026 ...

Ideally, I would call each of you to explain what we found wanting in your cover letters and CV’s, but I suspect my university would never approve of that plan. Still, I want to let you know why we ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Siobhan O’Dell, a 17-year-old applying to ...

Seniors, it is that time of the year. Excitement begins to build with every letter that comes in the mail, waiting in eager anticipation to hear from the universities that you applied to earlier in ...

One by one, high school students on Sunday giggled with their friends as they walked up to a ceremonially placed paper shredder and dropped in their college letters of rejection. What is normally a ...

“If you send them quickly, people feel like you thought they were such a terrible candidate that you barely needed to think about them.” As a job-seeker, is there anything worse than spending hours ...