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Wife makes website for her hubby, will make or break the deal?

myhusbandneedsajob.com

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Yes, how fast we forget, just 3 days back pg wrote this amazing words which should have improved the quality of submissions.

For the next couple days it would be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang than women who create sites to get hired by Twitter.

Please someone tell me, how is this article any different from a girl wanting to get hired by twitter.

"Please someone tell me, how is this article any different from a girl wanting to get hired by twitter."

Slightly more pathetic, but with better typography?

"Pathetic"? Really? The guy seems to be making the best of a bad situation and doing what he can to get noticed. I can only imagine that 10 months of searching for a job can be pretty rough.

It is better typography, though it's kind of obviously a iWeb template (not that there's anything wrong with that).

Did you use the "flag" button? Just a friendly reminder.

Yes I did and then thought of writing a comment to see if I was right in flagging it as it was an article with slight emotions.

The husband wants a job in consumer products marketing, with an entry-level marketing job and an MBA on his resume and little else. He was just on the front page of CNN. Yeah, I think this was a winning move.

I could be wrong, but making it to the front page of CNN doesn't necessarily qualify as "winning" in my book. There has to be a better metric for measuring the success of a job search.

The success of a search for a marketing job that lands on the front page of CNN? That's not a victory?

Clearly not. Success would be landing a job.

Landing yourself on the front page of CNN with a carefully crafted and timely PR stunt is to consumer products marketing what commiting to github a rewritten VM system for the Linux kernel is to software development.

except he wasn't the one who did it, it was his wife

Did you look at the site? He's all over it. This was definitely not some hapless guy rescued by his wife; he just wanted the angle. There is no juice behind the "I want a job so much I made a website" story. There's lots of juice behind "my wife made a website for me". Again: he's already won --- he's on the front page of CNN.

We never know if it was actually the wife.

Might have been a marketing move on his part to do that.

Also, the domain name http://www.iwantajob.com/ is taken.

This shows great creativity and initiative. I'd hire his wife.

I think Mike bounced the message off his wife as part of the strategy to not come off as a self-promoter (see: Twitter girl).

I think this guy is already considering multiple book deals and job offers:

"Ever since I graduated from the University of Southern California, I have experienced uncertainty regarding my career path. Interviewing for a position was a full-time job and I wasn't having any luck; failing 40+ interviews...

I'm Daniel Seddiqui and I'm traveling all 50 states to work 50 different careers in 50 weeks. Sound crazy? I'm on a mission to explore the diverse careers, environments, and cultures offered in America. Join me - you may find the perfect job."

http://www.livingthemap.com/Living_the_Map/This_Week/This_We...

This guy has nothing to do with the original husband, right? Or did I miss something?

Yes. I threw it in as another example of an unemployed creative.

link to CNN article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/14/california.husband.job/inde...

minus points for resume in image format only.

If only it were in scribd so it could have its very own link on the front page.

I think that is definitely a winner. It shows pro-activity which companies want. If I had a company in the bay area and was looking for a marketing manager, I'd sure as heck give this guy a call! :-)

This site would be a lot more profitable if he was selling romantic situation videos of him and his wife.

Is there a law on the Internet saying every conversation turns to porn? If there is, let's try and stop it anyway. It's disrespectful and distasteful.

Hey I didn't say anything about porn, you did.

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