Give CBT enough time to sink in and all/nothing thinking can be corrected. Not sure that the frustration with a thousand job applications and nothing to show for that, is the best example at pleading a case, that all/nothing thinking cannot be corrected.

1000 applications, resulted in success, however, with a job. Perhaps, it's not the need for a rescue approach that many of us, would have undertaken to obtain employment, but clearly this person thought outside the box long enough to put out a newspaper campaign?