Turned down from a job for reasons I can't quite understand

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I think the comment from the company that they made was alluding to lack of relevant experience, not background. If you are looking to get into journalism, it is recommended you get a3s much experience as possible. Have you done this? If not, look into this to help with future application.

Most broadcast journalists start off in written journalism. Is there not a small local newspaper u can work at just for a year before you take on the big ones?

It's never helpful or productive to get chippy/salty about job rejections. They happen too often for anyone's well-being. Take the feedback and try to analyse why, and then move on having learned what you can from the experience. Patterns will emerge.

Maybe if companies gave feedback, people could take the feedback. I'm afraid you are completely clueless with how companies work. Companies just say 'the competition was too high this year' or as this poster has said 'looking for something more specific'. Just general, bland, legal loop hole statements that get them off the hook. In addition, a lot of companies ask for a great deal of information such as gender, race and even what your parents do for a living. And if people need experience to get experience, then how are they supposed to get experience, genius?

Something needs to change. Companies should be legally required to give ACTUAL feedback. This would stop some of the discrimination, or if their feedback is legitimate, people would be able to improve from it and society would be better off as a whole.

Companies should be legally required to give ACTUAL feedback.