Recruitment person hit the send button on the system that send out the rejection letters during the call? Hiring manager may have already left a ‘no’ in the system but it just hasn’t been sent. Sorry you missed out but it can be something as benign as they had an internal applicant that got priority, may have been nothing to do with you specifically.
If any of those outcomes are the case it’s weird for them to ask for referees two weeks ago and only get a No now. Nothing is guaranteed with a new job until you’re in there but this is just a strange waste of everyone’s time
Recruitment person hit the send button on the system that send out the rejection letters during the call? Hiring manager may have already left a ‘no’ in the system but it just hasn’t been sent. Sorry you missed out but it can be something as benign as they had an internal applicant that got priority, may have been nothing to do with you specifically.
If any of those outcomes are the case it’s weird for them to ask for referees two weeks ago and only get a No now. Nothing is guaranteed with a new job until you’re in there but this is just a strange waste of everyone’s time