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.
