Innovative strategies for applying to jobs

With an ever more saturated work market, it’s crucial for people looking for work to get noticed in whatever way feasible, below are some of the most innovative ways individuals have found their ideal careers.

Omar Bashir
Merely twelve hours after implementing his brand new job-search method, 23 yr old graduate Omar Bashir had an offer. Mr Bashir had an honours degree in Economics but was becoming more and more discouraged with his basic level marketing and advertising job. His father, a market stall vendor inspired him to discover different ways of applying to jobs, telling him ‘You can sell anything’. Bashir went to both Cannon Street and Bank tube stations equipped with a sign and a box of CVs. Bashir notes that when he started many were perplexed and surprised as a result of his completely unique approach and some actually openly laughed, nevertheless he received adequate encouragement from individuals requesting his CV or giving him their card that he continued on. After the morning buzz he was been given a number of cards and was almost totally out of CVs . He received over 20 phone calls on that day. Among the people he met throughout his time was David Ross, soon to be Chief Executive of Towergate. Ross got in touch later, asking Bashir to send his CV, personal information and why he might wish to work at the business. By the end of the working day Bashir had gone in for an interview and was offered employment.

‘Jobless Paddy’
This out of work 26 year old was experiencing a large issue, if he wasn’t able to find employment he'd have to emigrate from his beloved Ireland. Feilim Mac An Iomaire, a marketing graduate, invested his personal savings on a substantial billboard advert on a busy road in South Dublin. The billboard depicted Ionmaire gazing out over the sea to landmarks like the Sydney Opera House, the Statue of Liberty and the Houses of Parliament, sporting a title reading ‘Save me from emigration’ along with some contact info. He was bombarded with good luck messages and emails, and the strategy gradually resulted in a job offer from Andy McCue’s Paddy Power organization.

Alec Brownstein
Alec Brownstein was ready for the next step in his career. Tired of doing work at an international ad agency, he desired a move to a much more creative organization, still focussed on advertising and marketing nevertheless. When searching for his favourite creative directors at ad agencies, he recognized a lack of advertising on their own search results page. Assuming that creative directors might regularly Google themselves, Brownstein proceeded to go ahead and purchase their names on Google AdWords. When a director would do a search for their particular name, a commercial that stated ‘Hey [name of director], googling yourself is a lot of fun, hiring me is fun, too’ this would appear together with his individual website. He got telephone calls back from all apart from 1 director and subsequently was presented a job at Ian Reichenthal and Scott Virtone's Y&R New York.