No Return Offer Help

Hello all, I recently completed my internship and was informed that I won't be getting a return offer. They stated that it's due to headcount and that I did nothing wrong and that everyone spoke highly of me. They also said ~40% of people got a return offer across all offices but only ~20-30% from the office I interned at did. I think the thing that caused them to pick other candidates is fit. Will this bite me when recruiting FT? I know alot of places are about to kick off FT recruiting and i'm not sure how to spin this without lying which i'm not willing to do.

Thanks

 

It's good that you aren't willing to lie, because you shouldn't do that anyway, the recruiters will see right through that. In that case, when recruiting for full time, I would just tell it the way you told it here, and say that what happened was not based of your performance and just purely luck and circumstances. It shouldn't hurt you since that was what happened, rather than you being the cause of you not getting an offer.

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Don't fret. People understand that return offers aren't guaranteed.

Highlight your experience, highlight why THEY SHOULD take you on as FT, not why the other employer didn't.

"Out the garage is how you end up in charge It's how you end up in penthouses, end up in cars, it's how you Start off a curb servin', end up a boss"
 

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