[brudgers]

Suppose there are four fully qualified candidates for a single position. To a first approximation, three of them did not get the position because there were four candidates and one position. The reasons why one or another candidate was chosen are much much less relevant to the outcome experienced by other three. The difference is mostly luck. Sure the hiring committee may have found reasons for picking one and not the others. But that's the nature of their job...rejecting three candidates and/or choosing one. And all this assumes that there actually was a position and not just the possibility or hope or wish that there might be one in the future.