Anca Ionescu

The Automated Rejection Email Template

You applied at 22:40. The rejection landed at 22:43.

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No recruiter read your CV in 3 minutes, and you know it. What you probably do not know is that you already have the right to ask what happened, and that the company has one month to answer you.

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The rights come from the GDPR, in force since 2018. They do not depend on the AI Act or anything arriving in 2027. They work today, they cost nothing, and you do not need a lawyer to use them.

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This is the email that asks the question, with the legal wording already written.

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What's inside

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The full email, ready to send, with four blanks to fill in.

Who to send it to, and what to screenshot before you do.

The one extra sentence that invokes your right to a human review.

The two dates that matter, and what silence past the second one means.

What their answer tells you about the company, whichever way it goes.

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Free. The PDF arrives by email within a minute.

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