2018.01.31
英文メールの書き方：不採用の通知をする
こんなシチュエーション、お仕事でありませんか？
採用活動をする中で、国外の応募者と電話で面談しました。人柄は申し分ないものの、スキルなどの面を考慮した結果、不採用とすることにしました。
こういう時は、縁がなかったとあきらめ、次のチャンスに目を向けるのがお互いにとって最も建設的なのは言うまでもありません。
さて、相手は合否をメールで知らせてほしいとのこと。不採用の理由をこと細かに書いてしまうと、やりとりが長引いてしまうかもしれません。不採用であることだけを端的に、でも丁寧に書こう。
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◯◯様、
先日は採用の面談にお時間をいただき、また、私どもの事業についてご意見をお聞かせいただきありがとうございました。
厳正なる選考の結果、今回は採用を見合わせていただくことになりました。
当社に応募いただきましたことに感謝すると共に、今後の転職活動のご成功をお祈り申し上げます。
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Hi everyone! How's it going? It's Kyota here again to bring you another E-mail
Picks video, but today, it's not gonna be
an easy one. I'm going to write an e-mail
to turn down a job candidate. So last
week, we had a job applicant who was
interested in one of our managerial
positions in our company, and he lived
far away. So my boss and I had a
telephone interview with him. Now
honestly, the interview was pretty fun
because he was one of the nicest people
I had ever spoken with, but after talking
it over with my boss, we decided not to
hire him. It breaks our heart to turn
down such a nice person, but we felt he
was not the kind of person we were
looking for right now. The job candidate
requested that we tell him the result by
e-mail, so that's what I'm doing
but of course this will not be happy
news for him, so I need to be careful
about a few points: first, the job
interview was done in a pretty informal
manner, but in this e-mail, I need to be
more formal. It's because this will
probably be very serious information for
somebody who's looking for a job;
second, the truth is, that I want to tell
him the reason we decided not to hire
him, but in reality I shouldn't it's
because it's very risky to write any
reason. If I write the reason, and the
candidate disagrees, that may lead to
many follow-up e-mails. The best thing to
do for both sides is to close this
account as soon as possible and move on --
not waste time arguing over e-mail. So I'm
just gonna write the result and wish him
good luck in his job interview.
So here goes: Thank you for taking the
time to speak with us last week and
sharing your views on business. However,
after careful consideration, we have
concluded that another candidate was
best qualified for the job. Thank you for
your interest in our company and we wish
you success with your future job search.
So as you can imagine, most of the
sentences here are very common things to
say in this kind of e-mail. For example:
"thank you for taking the time to..."
is a common phrase. "After
careful consideration..." is
another common phrase. "Thank you for your
interest in our company" is another
common phrase, and "we wish you success
with your future job search" is another
common phrase. "We have concluded that
another candidate was best qualified for
the job" is a more indirect, formal way to
say we decided not to hire you. So as you
can see, there aren't many ways to be
creative when you write this kind of
e-mail. It almost always comes out to be
the same. So anyway, I hope that helps
some of you who are in charge of hiring.
That's it for today. Thank you for
watching and I'll see you next week.
Picks video, but today, it's not gonna be
an easy one. I'm going to write an e-mail
to turn down a job candidate. So last
week, we had a job applicant who was
interested in one of our managerial
positions in our company, and he lived
far away. So my boss and I had a
telephone interview with him. Now
honestly, the interview was pretty fun
because he was one of the nicest people
I had ever spoken with, but after talking
it over with my boss, we decided not to
hire him. It breaks our heart to turn
down such a nice person, but we felt he
was not the kind of person we were
looking for right now. The job candidate
requested that we tell him the result by
e-mail, so that's what I'm doing
but of course this will not be happy
news for him, so I need to be careful
about a few points: first, the job
interview was done in a pretty informal
manner, but in this e-mail, I need to be
more formal. It's because this will
probably be very serious information for
somebody who's looking for a job;
second, the truth is, that I want to tell
him the reason we decided not to hire
him, but in reality I shouldn't it's
because it's very risky to write any
reason. If I write the reason, and the
candidate disagrees, that may lead to
many follow-up e-mails. The best thing to
do for both sides is to close this
account as soon as possible and move on --
not waste time arguing over e-mail. So I'm
just gonna write the result and wish him
good luck in his job interview.
So here goes: Thank you for taking the
time to speak with us last week and
sharing your views on business. However,
after careful consideration, we have
concluded that another candidate was
best qualified for the job. Thank you for
your interest in our company and we wish
you success with your future job search.
So as you can imagine, most of the
sentences here are very common things to
say in this kind of e-mail. For example:
"thank you for taking the time to..."
is a common phrase. "After
careful consideration..." is
another common phrase. "Thank you for your
interest in our company" is another
common phrase, and "we wish you success
with your future job search" is another
common phrase. "We have concluded that
another candidate was best qualified for
the job" is a more indirect, formal way to
say we decided not to hire you. So as you
can see, there aren't many ways to be
creative when you write this kind of
e-mail. It almost always comes out to be
the same. So anyway, I hope that helps
some of you who are in charge of hiring.
That's it for today. Thank you for
watching and I'll see you next week.
