How to make an AI-written rejection email sound human

Paste it in below — the rewriter is already set to “rejection email”, so it rewrites for the person who actually reads one. Then keep scrolling for the specific thing that gives a rejection email away, and a before-and-after.

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The thing that gives a rejection email away

Padding that makes it worse. “After careful consideration we have decided to move forward with candidates whose qualifications more closely align with our current needs” is three clauses of cushioning around one word.

It is worth being precise about this, because “sounds like AI” is not one problem. Every kind of writing has its own tell, and for a rejection email it is the one above. Once you can see it in your own draft you will start catching it before you paste anything anywhere.

Before and after

Written by hand, not generated — a realistic AI-sounding draft and the same thing as a person would write it.

Reads like AI

After careful consideration of your application, we have decided to move forward with other candidates whose qualifications more closely align with the current needs of the position. We wish you the very best in your future endeavours.

Reads like a person

I’m sorry — we’re not taking your application further. It came down to two people and the other candidate had run a warehouse move before, which is most of this job’s first six months. You interviewed well, and I’d be glad to talk again if something opens up.

Notice what actually changed: the sentence lengths stopped matching, the stock phrasing went, and the specific detail moved to the front. Nothing was added that a real writer would not have known.

Who reads a rejection email, and what they notice

Someone having a bad five minutes. They notice whether a human wrote it, and they remember the company either way.

This is the whole reason the rewrite has to change with the text type. The writing that decides whether a stranger gives you twenty minutes. Recruiters read the same stock openers hundreds of times a month, so sounding like everyone else is the expensive mistake here.

How to fix it yourself, without any tool

Worth knowing, because the point is to stop needing a rewriter. Four passes, five minutes:

Delete the first sentence. In most AI drafts it is setup. Start at the second sentence and see whether you lost anything — usually you did not.
Break the rhythm. Find three sentences of similar length in a row and cut one of them in half. That single change does more than any word swap.
Put in one plain word. Formal writing with a single ordinary word in it reads as human; flawless register reads as generated.
Add the detail only you have. The number, the name, the thing that happened. This is the part no rewriter can do for you, and it is the part that works.

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