Walking resume finally lands job
March 13, 2009 by Sam NarisiPosted in: Attracting talent, In This Week's E-Newsletter, Latest News & Views, Self marketing
These days, we’ve been hearing a lot of stories about job seekers pulling crazy stunts to find employment. Well, here’s one that actually worked.
Five months ago, Jason Fruen of Manchester, England, lost his job as a mechanical maintenance engineer.
After sending his resume to companies and having no luck, he adopted a different strategy: He began wearing the resume.
Fruen created a sandwich board that read, in big bold letters, “Mechanical maintenance engineer, seeking employment,” along with his telephone number, the Daily Mail reports.
His plan: Stand by an industrial complex and hope someone pays attention. He didn’t have to wait very long.
On his first day of self-advertising, a car pulled over. The owner of a local company offered him a job.
Unfortunately, it was only for a two-and-a-half month temporary assignment. So now, Freun is hitting the streets again, starting every day at 5:30 a.m.
What extreme job-seeker tactics have you seen or heard about? Would anything like Freun’s gimmick catch your attention enough to consider someone for a job? Let us know in the comments section below.
Tags: job search gimmicks
March 20th, 2009 at 10:56 am
I had an applicant hand write a four page narrative of his experience. It read more like a short story than a resume. He included how his position in the companies for which he had worked impacted his fellow employees. I checked his references and everything he stated was true. He become one of my better hires.
March 20th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Being in construction, I get call everyday from aplicants willing to work free for 1 week, just to see how good of a worker they are. I tell them that is illegal and they still insist. Some guys even show up on the jobsites, just to see if they can sneak in and work, and maybe get paid.