What’s an appropriate email to send to a candidate you don’t want to interview and who responded to a job posting?

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Posting as :
works at
You are currently posting as works at

We have decided to move forward with other candidates who may be a better fit.

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Go with the generic email. There are portfolio reviews and whatnot where creatives can get specific feedback. Here, since they’re asking for a job (internship), hopefully they’d be happy with feedback to help them get the next one but it’s entirely possible that they’d be angered or offended even if the feedback itself was 100% spot on

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(This is for an intern position but even in general)
I’m torn between saying something generic “not the right fit” or spending time giving feedback - but I don’t have all day to be thoughtful to absolutely everyone because the work will suffer and that’s what I’m evaluated on?

Give them a thorough book critique and then tell them to keep working hard and get back to you. They may surprise you.

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