# Ten Months, Fifty-Three Applications, One Interview — and a Yes

**[WIN]** — by Candidate · via r/jobs

Ten months of applying, and of being rejected. Then, this week, a new offer — accepted.

They were moving out of retail management and into administration at a manufacturing company. Over the ten months they applied for fifty-three positions. Out of all of them came a single intake, a single interview, and a single offer.

“I knew if I could get to the interview process I could be a serious contender,” they wrote — and they were right. The role, they said, was exactly what they had been looking for, with good pay and real room to grow. No labyrinth of rounds; one conversation that landed.

After a long stretch of nothing, they wrote simply that they were looking forward to the new chapter.

*Source: [r/jobs · new post](https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/1wxh4r4/i_got_the_job/)*
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