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It doesn't look like he made it into the top 3. http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/pa-the-series/112/

I was thinking that you'd still need to get a potential employer to click through (unless the message was HTML formatted), which they might not do if they're inundated with responses.

Maybe he or a friend should submit the cover letter and his story to the business press. Wouldn't they be interested in something like that (as a job-hunting innovation)?

Exactly. I recently made a few webpages specifically for one job offer to go with my cover letter/resume. Unfortunately, these pages have never been opened…

I couldn't think of the best way to do it: a very short cover letter basically saying "open that webpage to see my real cover letter" might just annoy the recipient; a somewhat regular cover letter (my choice then) with an invitation to open a link still needs to be distinctive enough to convince the recipient to click the link.

Why don't you start the story off with your email. If they are interested, they will click through to the rest of your pages.

What a horrible interview process and post-interview discussion. Even if I had gotten the job, after watching that self-important and vague, irrational driven reasoning process I'd promptly turn it down.

I hope they were at least being paid for becoming part of a TV show.

No kidding. I only hope those Rorschach tests were a joke but I'm not so sure.

I think I know why: the only funny part was the last cell. And this man was trying desperately to be funny the whole time.

Oh, and the "design". Humongous blank space on the left; comic pushed off to the right. I really hope he didn't send it like that.

I thought the final panel was less funny than several other bits. The dog? The food rapping? The fact that he's now Gabe and Tycho's son?

The problem I see is that he seems to be angling less for the job as a designer and more for Gabe and Tycho's (wait, are those their real names?) job as a cartoonist. One might worry that he'd have to be repeatedly told "No, sit down and fix the website, stop pitching us strip ideas"

I found a copy of the original job ad, btw:

http://www.be-mag.com/msgboard/showthread.php?18856-Penny-Ar...

Well, I didn't think those things were funny. They were just forced and random.

It follows the humor of the actual strip pretty closely.

Though in order to be more like the strip, 80% of the jokes would need to be references completely opaque to anyone who hasn't played whatever obscure video game came out yesterday.

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