I think that is definitely a winner. It shows pro-activity which companies want. If I had a company in the bay area and was looking for a marketing manager, I'd sure as heck give this guy a call! :-)
The husband wants a job in consumer products marketing, with an entry-level marketing job and an MBA on his resume and little else. He was just on the front page of CNN. Yeah, I think this was a winning move.
Did you look at the site? He's all over it. This was definitely not some hapless guy rescued by his wife; he just wanted the angle. There is no juice behind the "I want a job so much I made a website" story. There's lots of juice behind "my wife made a website for me". Again: he's already won --- he's on the front page of CNN.
I could be wrong, but making it to the front page of CNN doesn't necessarily qualify as "winning" in my book. There has to be a better metric for measuring the success of a job search.
Landing yourself on the front page of CNN with a carefully crafted and timely PR stunt is to consumer products marketing what commiting to github a rewritten VM system for the Linux kernel is to software development.
"Pathetic"? Really? The guy seems to be making the best of a bad situation and doing what he can to get noticed. I can only imagine that 10 months of searching for a job can be pretty rough.
I think this guy is already considering multiple book deals and job offers:
"Ever since I graduated from the University of Southern California, I have experienced uncertainty regarding my career path. Interviewing for a position was a full-time job and I wasn't having any luck; failing 40+ interviews...
I'm Daniel Seddiqui and I'm traveling all 50 states to work 50 different careers in 50 weeks. Sound crazy? I'm on a mission to explore the diverse careers, environments, and cultures offered in America. Join me - you may find the perfect job."
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 80.7 ms ] threadMight have been a marketing move on his part to do that.
Also, the domain name http://www.iwantajob.com/ is taken.
For the next couple days it would be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang than women who create sites to get hired by Twitter.
Please someone tell me, how is this article any different from a girl wanting to get hired by twitter.
Slightly more pathetic, but with better typography?
"Ever since I graduated from the University of Southern California, I have experienced uncertainty regarding my career path. Interviewing for a position was a full-time job and I wasn't having any luck; failing 40+ interviews...
I'm Daniel Seddiqui and I'm traveling all 50 states to work 50 different careers in 50 weeks. Sound crazy? I'm on a mission to explore the diverse careers, environments, and cultures offered in America. Join me - you may find the perfect job."
http://www.livingthemap.com/Living_the_Map/This_Week/This_We...