The job market is tough, especially in creative industries. However, creative jobseekers always find a way to stand out and find a solution. Thanks to them, there's a new trend on the rise: Tasty Food CVs. Here are some ingredients of the most successful recipes:
Tyrrell's packet of chips CV.
Industry: Marketing.
CV Taste: salted.
Yves Bonneyrat's, a Frenchman seeking a job at British potato snack brand "Tyrrells" has come up with a way to grab their attention. He printed his CV on a packet of chips and sent it as a spontanious job application for a position of “Sales Manager in France“ to Tyrell's head office in Leominster, Herefordshire, in the UK. Did he got the job? No, it was too salted:). However, Yves' CV has gone viral, got plenty of press attention and attracted Tyrell's competitor, a crisp manufacturer Tayto who has expressed an interest in the Yves talents, invinting him to send his CV to the company.
Nick Begley's Chocolate Bar Resume (2009)
Industry: Marketing.
CV Taste: sweet.
The photo of Nick Begley's resume bar made a tour of the globe in a few days in 2009. It's got almost 2 million views on Reddit, nearly 97,000 votes and 3,200 comments ina few hours after publishing. Nick was applying for a marketing position at a New York. City-based company Did he got the job? Yes, it was perfect to sweeten up the hard times the economy was going through! In a year of recession, the chocolate resume bar cv contained all the ingredients any business would be looking to consume: "100% daily value in Leadership, Creativity, and Business Acumen" and "110% Work Ethic. The only problem was that he had to bring several copies of his resume to the interview as a potentional recruiter needed to review his resume repeatedly.
Hershey's Chocolate Bar Resume (2014)
Industry: Marketing and Graphic Design.
CV Taste: sweet.
Well, here's another version of chocolate cv made by Matthew Hirsch. The ingridients are pretty the same: motivation, creativity, adaptability and barcode with his phone number. Did he got the job? Well, he already had a full-time job when he had created this cv.
Duck Liver Mousse CV
Industry: Marketing and Advertising.
CV Taste: salted.
A French collectif of marketing graduates looking for an internhip come up with an idea to create a Duck Liver Mousse CV. The idea pleased one parisian agency called JWT Paris. Did they got their internship? Sure. We're talking about the French gastronomy!
Simon's Mathieu Wine CV
Industry: Wine Sales and Marketing.
CV Taste: red wine.
Another French freshly graduate student seeking for a job in wine industry came up with an idea of printing his CV on wine bottles and send them to all wine companies of his interest. Simon says it's hard to get a job in the wine industry when you are graduate and have no connections in the field, so you have to stand out. By sending his wine bottle cvs, he tried to show his dermination for the field to the potential employers. And it worked!
These inventive CVs may seem funny and childlish, however they've brought jobs to hundreds of talented candidates. Usually recruiters say that a successful application is the one that is tailored to the company's needs. The key ingredient of its success is your ability to demonstrate your value and motivation through it. So, is a way to a recruiter's heart through his stomach? Well, recruiters are picky about CVs, so it's better to make it yummy, yes.
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