On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
2) However, what kind of mail would you have liked?
You said that you
didn't want a boilerplate email, okay. But how do you write "personal
emails" to the ca. 10 applicants who we did not choose? Either you
keep it very short and simple ("Hi, this is to inform you that you
were considered but that we found Ral315 to be the most qualified
candidate after all"), which would be a form of a boilerplate again.
Otherwise, you'll have to outline for every candidate the exact
reasons why the successful candidate was "better" (read: more
qualified) than him and it's a) difficult to formulate this without
being impolite and b) it takes a lot of time.
An explanation of why only one person could be accepted would be helpful,
since you seem to be implying that this is the case.