Class of 2011, Meet Your Competition

NetworkingStudent

The way this student/job seeker approached searching for a job is very interesting.


Class of 2011, Meet Your Competition | BNET


Her website->

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From BNET--As we covered last week, the media loves innovative resume ideas. So when clever Duke University 2011 grad Christine Hall came up with this addictively clickable job hunting technique, it’s no surprise that it garnered her plenty of attention.

What has the response been?

It’s been great actually. I don’t know how it started going viral, but I’m incredibly appreciative that it has. I actually created the website in October and usually I get maybe a dozen or so hits a day. Yesterday it was upwards of 9,000. It was the kind of thing where I have notifications on my phone set up so that every time someone mentions me in a tweet, my phone rings. I had to turn my phone off. It was overheating.


Something to think about-

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Asif Dasl

Interesting ideas, but I think the standard resume will be around for a long time to come.

CodeBlox

That is a really good idea. The only grip I have is that I have to scroll down the page just to read part of the information after so many presses. I think a traditional resume will do just fine for now though! This will probably get her noticed though.

cyberguypr

Clever. Good idea given she wants to work in advertising/marketing. May not work for other fields. I will not be enthused if a prospect makes me go through all that clicking.

MentholMoose

A friend of mine did something similar a few years ago, but far more interesting. He's a software engineer so it was all custom coded. Instead of a simple message leading up to a resume, each click showed something about his experience (one I recall was a bubble chart with the lines of code he contributed to various open source projects). Besides the basic informational pages, he added a feature where if you put in your phone number you'd get a call with a recorded song that was a popular Internet meme at the time.

Once it was done, he setup a Facebook ad campaign targeting employees of the company he wanted to work for with an ad saying something like, "hey XYZ employee, I want to work with you!" and a link to his site. He got a job from them in no time. Even if that didn't work out, while working on the phone feature he had been in contact with the VoIP provider he was using regarding their API, and apparently he got someone's attention since he got an offer from them as well!

Xcluziv

cyberguypr wrote: »

Clever. Good idea given she wants to work in advertising/marketing. May not work for other fields. I will not be enthused if a prospect makes me go through all that clicking.

Indeed it was. I don't think this was the first attempt someone used a tactitc like this to get hired. I remember a couple of years back someone made a site to get hired by Facebook.....and I think she ended up getting hired