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 ...

Behind every job offer are hundreds of résumés marked ‘rejected’—a reminder that persistence matters more than perfection. After months of job searching, Erin had rewritten her résumé, applied to ...

Sarah thought she’d nailed it. Three rounds of interviews for her dream marketing role, glowing feedback from the hiring manager, and a reassuring “we’ll be in touch soon.” So when the rejection email ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Caroline Castrillon covers career, entrepreneurship and women at work. You've spent months focused on your job search. After six ...