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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.

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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.

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