After spending hours, day after day, applying for jobs, you get the dreaded rejection email. What a bummer! At this point, all you want to do is give up, and you definitely don’t want to respond to ...

The most common response we have when we get rejected is to become intensely self-critical. We review all our faults and shortcomings and call ourselves names, triggering further feelings of shame, ...

Another hiring season has come and gone this year, with job applicants reading more than their fair share of “We regret to inform you” notices. Believe it or not, many candidates actually read those ...

I have spent my career in major gift fundraising, where hearing no is a daily part of the job. Throughout my life, I’ve been rejected from jobs, meeting requests, awards, and speaking opportunities.

Hooray! You took a risk and put yourself out there. But after all of that emotional effort, it didn’t go as planned, and now you’re feeling just a bit wounded. Everyone deals with rejection at one ...

"Sorry, we've decided not to invest." Those words stung. After several years in the corporate world, Jia Jiang had taken a huge risk when he attempted to start his ...

Four days before my son was to be born, I walked away from my job at a Fortune 100 company to begin building my startup. I built a team of engineers and we were four months into our venture when I was ...

Just as in monastic life, in which there are periods of candidacy and novitiate before the taking of vows, so in life, our calls and passions are tested. And one of the most stinging forms of this is ...

We’ve probably all heard or said this phrase countless times. However, despite the “fear of rejection” appearing so frequently, this phrase rarely seems questioned. One reason is that it’s a truism.