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Talent Tip #43: Rejection (Im)Perfection: The Art of Second Chances

March 19, 2013

We’ve all been rejected at some point along the way. Perhaps you got cut from the football team or didn’t make the cheerleading squad.  Maybe you received a thin letter of rejection from your dream school. Or perhaps in college you were shunned by the hot and completely unattainable Dale Beaverman.

No matter what it was, you remember clearly that sting of rejection. It hurts. It’s embarrassing. It’s unsettling. And when it happens, we’re tempted to lash out.

But a wise man knows better. He knows two things:

1.     “Success builds character; failure reveals it.” – Dave Checkett
2.     You never know when you’ll go from the #2 slot to the #1 slot.

After all, the football coach might call you up after losing his starting QB. And your dream school might move you from the waiting list to acceptance. And, of course, Dale Beaverman might come to her senses.

However, if after the rejection you (Excuse my language, but my grandmother used this phrase; and I think it fits perfectly here.) “show your ass,” then it doesn’t matter. You’re toast.

Ok, Claire. Thanks for making me think of my high school tribulations and your sassy grandma, but what’s your point?

My point is that taking rejection well also applies to the job world.  Case in point: a candidate I was working with recently ended up in the second choice slot for an opening. After going through all the interviews and discussions and coming up shy, he could have been a jerk about the whole thing. But he wasn’t. He was gracious, positive, and understanding.

And guess what happened? A few weeks after he didn’t get the job, the organization called him to offer him another role. He took it.

Great Disney ending, right? You bet it is. Now if only our dating lives could have such pleasant finales…

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Claire Kittle Dixon

Claire Kittle Dixon
Executive Director
Claire has more than a decade of experience in the talent development field. She…
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Katelynn Barbosa
Director of Talent Engagement
Katelynn started her career in the Koch Associate Program and then litigated at the Institute for Justice…
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Katy Gambella
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Katy began her career at the Institute for Humane Studies and later joined the Cato Institute…
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Lydia Ocampo
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Lydia started her career with Young Americans for Liberty. During her time with YAL…
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Talent Market is a nonprofit. We’ll wait here while that sinks in. We know it’s a crazy concept, but it’s been working like a charm since 2009.

Talent Market’s mission is to promote liberty by providing talent for critical roles within the free-market nonprofit sector.

We provide free consulting and recruiting services to free-market think tanks, policy organizations, research centers, and capacity building institutions dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government and free enterprise. (We do not work in politics, nor do we work with organizations that address social issues.) Talent Market believes that the road to prosperity is paved with freedom and that the success of our movement hinges on the talent that will take us there.

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