94% candidate satisfaction
William Buck maintained 94% candidate satisfaction across its wider graduate and intern screening workflow. This result is not attributed to bulk rejection alone.
Read the William Buck storyBulk candidate rejection emails
Every candidate deserves an answer. Even when applications pile up.
Because you cannot control what rejected candidates say. You can control how they were treated before they say it. One branded rejection message and a separate email workflow for each candidate.
- Reject at scale without losing control
- Stop silence becoming a brand problem
- Confirm exactly who will be contacted
- Personalise the message before it goes out
Example closed-role workflow
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Candidate-experience context
A final email is one part of how candidates remember the process.
“Talking to Alex, the AI, was such a unique experience. It felt seamless and surprisingly engaging.”
How bulk candidate rejection works
Handle final candidate communication with control at every step.
The current workflow starts only after a role is actually closed. It moves an authorised administrator from a filtered audience to an editable preview and one email workflow per selected candidate.
Candidate rejection stays locked while a role is open or only scheduled to close. Once it is actually closed, Skill Society builds a role-specific list from the latest prequalification record for each application and leaves applications currently marked Hired out.
Final communication begins only when the hiring team has finished the role.
Closed-role checkpoint
Step 01
The rejection workflow becomes available after the role has actually closed.
A bulk action, still owned by a person.
Skill Society communicates the decision your hiring team has made. It does not choose who to reject or change the candidate's pipeline status for you.
Outcomes from the wider Skill Society journey
Candidate experience is shaped by the whole hiring process.
39% interviewed after working hours
Pet Circle let candidates complete interviews around their own schedules in its wider high-volume workflow. This result is not attributed to bulk rejection alone.
Read the Pet Circle story
40+ hours saved per hire
Wilbur brought greater consistency to technical screening through its wider Skill Society workflow. This result is not attributed to bulk rejection alone.
Read the Wilbur storyClose the loop
Do not let a finished role leave candidates waiting.
These customer outcomes come from broader Skill Society screening and interview workflows. Candidate Rejection gives selected non-hired applicants a clear, branded final communication once a role closes.
Questions, answered
Questions before you close the role
These answers reflect the candidate-rejection workflow currently shipped in Skill Society.
Can I send rejection emails to multiple candidates at once?
Yes. After the role has actually closed, an authorised administrator can filter the non-hired audience, select one or more eligible applicants, review the shared email, and queue one rejection-email workflow per selected candidate.
Does Skill Society decide which candidates to reject?
No. Your hiring team chooses the recipients. Skill Society excludes candidates currently marked Hired and keeps completed or in-progress rows in this rejection workflow from being selected again, but it does not make the rejection decision.
Can rejection messages be personalised?
The current workflow adds the selected candidate's name to the greeting when a name is available and uses your saved account branding. You can edit the subject, title, message, and footer for the batch, but you cannot give individual candidates different body copy inside the same bulk send.
Can we create and approve reusable rejection templates?
Not in the current bulk-rejection page. It starts with a role-aware default draft that an administrator can edit before each send, but it does not yet provide a saved or approval-based template library.
Does sending a rejection email update the candidate's application status?
No. Candidate stage and final communication are separate in the current product. This workflow queues the rejection email and tracks whether its workflow is pending, running, completed, or failed; your team manages the candidate's pipeline status separately.
How does Skill Society prevent the same rejection being sent twice?
Each prequalification in this feature has its own rejection-workflow identity. Rows with a completed, pending, or running workflow remain visible but cannot be selected again, and eligibility is checked again on the server before new workflows are queued. Failed workflows can be selected for a retry.
Who can use bulk candidate rejection?
The workflow is restricted to authorised account administrators and is treated as a destructive role action. It is available only for a role that has actually closed.
Can candidates reply to the rejection email?
The current workflow sends from Skill Society's no-reply notification address, so it should be treated as a final outbound communication rather than a managed reply inbox.