13197: Thankfully, Performers Aren’t Put Through This New Wringer

Raw transcript:

I often hear performers that are at the
very least disappointed and in some
cases very upset when they audition for
something they don’t get the gig and
nobody tells them why or that they
didn’t get the gig they don’t get the
proverbial rejection letter well
something has been happening in the
world of business that we should all be
thankful we don’t have to deal with when
it comes to rejection I’ll share that
with you in this episode of the vo
Heroes
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podcast now those of you that are
writers you will likely if you write for
uh magazines or journals or bloggers or
uh you are in a sort of a traditional
position maybe you’re submitting a
manuscript to a publisher you’re in a
kind of a traditional position where you
if you don’t get it if they don’t want
to do what you want to do if they don’t
want to accept your book or your article
or whatever uh you get a very nice
rejection letter or email or whatever in
the world of voice over and the world of
acting we don’t get that I mean the the
casting entities are busy enough letting
the people who did get the job know
about it and contracts and you know
notifications and agents and wardrobe
and all that stuff but there’s been this
thing happening in the world of business
in the do world world in the hiring
world in the uh Human Resources world
that we should all be very thankful
isn’t something we need to deal with
apparently uh according to an article
that just appeared in slate magazine the
new thing and maybe it’s not new it’s
just new to me but the new thing is not
a rejection letter physical letter sent
in the mail or an email but rather
asking you to join a live Zoom session
where you’re told you know we decided to
move forward with another candidate we
really appreciate what you’ve done we
just wanted to give you uh uh the the
news uh personally and we hope that
you’ll continue to pursue positions with
us if there’s anything that’s open that
you want to apply with we welcome you to
do that and people are
reacting with understandable horror at
this you know you get this notice from
somebody that you’ve applied for a job
with and they say yeah Hey listen we’d
love to meet with you this Friday you
know you’ve been through the first
interview the second interview the the
you know search committee what however
the process is and then here’s this Zoom
session where you think certainly
they’re going to offer me the job right
but no they’re and I think this is this
is probably somebody who came up with
what they think is the brilliant idea to
have a more human touch to it and not an
impersonal email or an impersonal text
or an impersonal uh physical letter sent
in the mail that they would rather like
what do you do when you’re in that situ
can you imagine if casting directors
wanted to connect with you to tell you
you didn’t get the job or if Publishers
wanted to jump on Zoom with you to tell
you yeah we’re not going to move forward
with your book but thank you and please
submit other things in the F boy oh boy
so my point here is be careful what you
wish for because you just might get it
and let’s be thankful
that we can do an audition or send in a
submission and then just move on and if
we get it we get it if we don’t we don’t
but we don’t have to worry about getting
all dressed up in a suit and expecting
to be hired and then all of a sudden
you’re told no no no we’re we’re we’re
we’re going with somebody
else
anyway uh let me know what you think
about this new move in the world of
business and whether or not we should do
that in performance should we do that I
don’t think so but let me know in the
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writer who you’ve heard complain that we
don’t hear when we don’t get the job we
just don’t hear yeah okay well maybe
that’s a good thing I’m David H Lawrence
the 17th I thank you so much for
watching and for listening and I will
see you in the next episode of the vo
Heroes podcast
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