Property News · January 7, 2013

Do job-hunting stunts ever lead to work?


Media production graduate Adam Pacitti, who spent £500 to advertise himself on a hoarding in London, hopes they canWe have seen people do it with T-shirts, songs, viral marketing campaigns and endless rounds of sandwich-boards. Now, 24-year-old media production graduate Adam Pacitti is the toast of the internet – and all over the news – after he rented a large poster site in London to advertise himself for work. “I spent my last £500 on this billboard,” the billboard says. “Please give me a job.”You have to admire Pacitti’s chutzpah, but do stunts like this work? Does he have a job yet? “I don’t,” he says. “But a lot of companies are expressing interest.” How many? “At least 50. They’re saying they like what I’ve done. They like my initiative. They all just want to meet up and see where they can take things … There’s a couple of production companies who are talking about roles I’d be really interested in.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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