>Instead of simply rejecting people from the mountain path, lead them, with friendliness and encouragement, to another path they can take. I would point out th

>Instead of simply rejecting people from the mountain path, lead them, with friendliness and encouragement, to another path they can take. I would point out that you get a lot of societal bang for your buck even if gatekeepers only sometimes give feedback. Getting rejected from 20 jobs and getting feedback from two of them gives you a big ambition boost: someone is looking at my applications! They thought I was a good enough applicant to merit some of their time! The next 18 feedback emails probably don't add as much value as the first couple. Anyway, my guess is that giving good feedback, absent any societal movement to change norms around rejections, still has a fantastic ROI.