How many rejection email have everyone received before getting first permanent full time position as a designer?
Did you have to alternate your personality applying to jobs?

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It took me 2.5 months from application to receiving a start date. I prepared heavily for my interviews by researching the company, team and STAR answers.

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I applied to about 150 roles before I landed my first time design role. I got interviews for roughly 10% of those roles, in the end I had 3 final round interviews and one offer. If you can get a role though networking, I would recommend that as opposed to the casting a wide net approach.

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Cannot remember how many application I had... just too much. But fyi I received the best offer after 34 interviews.

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