Last week I applied for a role I wanted. The application time frame had closed and I contacted the school. They asked me to submit a speculative application having spoken to the HR team. They contacted me twice after this to encourage me to submit this. So I did. I worked so hard on the application – it’s a leadership role in a school I really liked, and I put everything into it. I checked, checked, and checked again before submitting.
Today I logged into the portal to see if there were any updates, and when I looked at my submitted application I realised the first word was missing. The statement now starts with an incomplete lowercase error.
I know it wasn’t like that when I submitted it. I checked thoroughly, and I’m certain the software must have removed the first word when it uploaded. It’s been over a week and I’ve heard nothing, so I’m taking the silence as my answer. But I feel so disheartened – I wanted this opportunity and now it feels like I’ve ruined my chances.
Opportunities like this don’t come up often in my area, and it was l a role in the English department as a team leader, which makes it look even worse. It wasn’t a sloppy application at all, I just didn’t copy and paste it correctly.
It’s been a week now. Do I just need to make my peace with it?