Out of the 40+ applications I’ve sent out so far, I’ve only received one rejection letter. I just assume that if I haven’t heard back from them, I’ve been rejected. I guess it saves them time.
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When I grauduated from law school, the federal judges I sent resumes to let me down easy (except for the one that hired me) with nice form letters, almost all personally addressed and typed on high quality paper. Same with the state appellate judges. The positions I applied for with the state AG’s office didn’t even bother to send me a postcard with the word “no” on it.
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Which reminds me of another reason. When I started work, we had one secretary/admin for about 20 people. Now we have one for about 150. Then two or three first level supervisors shared one, now only a VP gets one. A manager then could draft a rejection letter and get the admin to send it out, now he/she has to do it when no doubt suffering from being short handed. I suspect federal judges have not lost administrative support in the past 20 years, and I bet DAs have.
I’ve gotten them… unfortunately.
The most memorable though came from a religious institution via email with the subject line: “REJECTED”
Wow… makes ya want to jump in and join that church. =P