Nonselection of Applicants: Salary Requirements
Guidelines and Alternate Phrases
Thank the applicant for his or her interest in working for your company, being specific about the time and effort spent in interviewing, travel to your site, and references or other information furnished for your evaluation.
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to consider your experience in filling the plant manager position. We especially appreciate your time in making the special trip to Dallas for the interview.
Thank you for forwarding your résumé to us; we appreciate the opportunity to look at so qualified a candidate for our clinic.
We want you to know first of all how grateful we are for your willingness to interview with us when such a great distance was involved. Your travel here made it so much easier on all our staff to talk with you firsthand about their expectations for this position.
Thank you, Marilyn, for visiting with us about the job we have available in Clinton. We also very much appreciate the time you took in supplying us with such a complete portfolio.
Now that the dust has settled, we as a team have been able to talk more seriously about the position for which you interviewed. We thank you for your patience and interest in coming to work for us.
Frank, we so much appreciate the time you’ve spent with us during this past month while we have been outlining plans for the European expansion.
I wanted to update you on the status of your résumé with our Facilities Management division, and to thank you for bearing with us. As you probably realize, when we fill a position as important as the one we discussed with you, we are very deliberate in our evaluation process.
Thank you for taking the time to interview with us. We realize time is one commodity graduate students have in short supply, and we appreciate the interest you’ve shown in Wellesey.
Thank you for talking with us about the management position in Saudi Arabia. Your experience and achievements have such a direct bearing on the position we have been most anxious to work out all the details.
Thank you so much for spending the time to go through the lengthy interviewing process with us. In addition to the time here on site, I know you also spent hours on the phone with other of our managers.
Thank you for the two trips you made to Dallas to talk with us about the sales position. They were time-consuming, and we appreciate the effort.
Comment on the applicant’s experience, achievements, or attributes appropriate to the job, and then give the salary issue as your reason for the turndown. State under what conditions, if any, you might reconsider the decision.
With your telecommunication expertise and your management experience, we certainly wanted to be able to bring you aboard in this position. However, as we discussed among ourselves in evaluating your résumé, budget has always been a thorn in our side here. We find we just can’t come up with the money to meet your salary expectations.
We were very impressed with your achievements at Belview—the two service awards this past year particularly. But after re-evaluating our needs here, we just do not feel we can justify the salary requirements you outlined for us.
Although we wish we could hire someone with your pleasant disposition and willingness—even eagerness—to travel, we find your salary expectations exceed what the job pays.
Frankly, Belinda, we thought you were perfect for the position, but we can’t meet your salary needs.
Your experience at Barington and your academic ties seemed just the thing to sway our management team here. The problem is the salary range you mentioned.
Although there is no doubt you are qualified for this job—even over-qualified—we simply can’t justify the salary you asked for the skills this job requires.
Quiet honestly, Bob, you were the best-qualified candidate. We just can’t pay the $80,000 salary you requested. Perhaps, if we ever reorganized so this position encompassed both divisions, that salary might be feasible. But we have no such plans at the present.
We have no doubt you could handle the job we discussed. Our problem is with the salary—we simply can’t meet your requirements.
Wish the applicant well in the job search. If you wish, express regret in not having been able to agree on salary.
Thank you again for talking with us about your career plans; we regret we were unable to agree on salary. In any case, best wishes to you.
We appreciate so much the opportunity to get to know you and regret only that we were unable to make you an offer. Our best as you look elsewhere.
It was so nice to learn more about your work and plans for the future, and it is with regret we have to forego the opportunity of a suitable working arrangement. We hope you find exactly what you’re looking for.
Thank you for making the effort to interview with us. I wish we could have found a position for you here. Good luck elsewhere.
We wish you the best in finding the job you want and deserve.
We want you to know we think your qualifications justify the salary requirements you have, and we wish you the best in locating a suitable position immediately.
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