Posted on 05/09/2005 by lifelong_hr_hell
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I really do wish I was kidding about this. I have told several people this story and no one believes it but so help me it's true!
Last year we had a candidate come in and interview. Aside from being fresh out of college he seemed very mature and fit the bill for the entry level marketing position we had available. He had been in for two interviews and we were seriously considering hiring him...UNTIL the photos started arriving.
I don't know if it was his idea of a marketing campaign or what. He began mailing, faxing and e-mailing photos of himself in office situations...for example there was one of him standing up giving a presentation and another picture of him helping a someone (probably his mom) on her computer. All the pictures he sent (about 10 in total) looked completely staged. He was wearing a fake smile in most of them and a mock "concerned look" in others. All the pictures came with some text attached or like a big bold banner across the top that said things like "I'm your man", "Jim gets the job done" or "Promotion is my middle name". Duh... I think "Pyscho" was his middle name.
I actually thank god he sent that stuff because otherwise we would have hired him and learned the hard way what a nut job he was. I am still trying to figure out if somebody told him this was a good idea or he went to a seminar on self-promotion or what! He could have just been a misguided young man...but my spidey sense tells me it went way beyond that. I will have to find one of the pictures to post on here!!!
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Did you ever see that movie "Legally Blonde"? That guy Jim probably did. That's where he might have gotten the self-promotion idea from. She did something like that in the movie, made a video to get into Harvard.
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