Being Unemployed Sucks» Media http://www.beingunemployedsucks.com Unemployment Survival Guide Mon, 17 May 2010 18:10:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Harnessing the power of Google to get a job. Clever! http://www.beingunemployedsucks.com/2010/05/17/harnessing-the-power-of-google-to-get-a-job-clever/ http://www.beingunemployedsucks.com/2010/05/17/harnessing-the-power-of-google-to-get-a-job-clever/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 18:10:39 +0000 B.U.S. http://www.beingunemployedsucks.com/?p=344

Alec Brownstein is clever. Ridiculously clever. More from Valleywag:

If there is one common current that runs throughout all of humanity, it is that everyone Googles themselves all day, every day. Humans are vain creatures! Copywriter Alec Brownstein used this fact to get a job via Google AdWords.

Languishing at a huge ad agency, Brownstein bought the names of his favorite creative directors on Google AdWords for 15 cents per click. Which meant whenever they Googled themselves, Brownstein’s ad popped up:

Hey, [creative director's name]: Goooogling [sic] yourself is a lot of fun. Hiring me is fun, too” with a link to Brownstein’s website, alecbrownstein.com.

It worked: Everyone but one of his targets called him, and today Brownstein works for Young & Rubicam, a fancy New York ad agency.

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This man documents with a vlog (video blog) his last day of work at a newspaper.

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At her Harvard University commencement speech, “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems “worth more than any qualification I ever earned.”

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo (via TED.com)

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by Mint.com (via Jake Lodwick)

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