On Friday morning, homeless web developer David Casarez woke from his park bench in Mountain View, Calif., put on a nice shirt and tie, and carried his hand-written cardboard sign to a nearby highway median. “HOMELESS,” the sign read. “HUNGRY 4 SUCCESS. TAKE A RESUME.” It turned out to be the perfect job search strategy.
A passerby’s (Jasmine Scofield) photo of him standing on the median holding the sign soon went viral on Twitter, and by Saturday afternoon, he’d been flooded with more than 200 job offers. “Google reached out to me,” the astounded 26-year-old told The Post. “So many other companies. Pandora. A bunch of startups,” he said, speaking by phone at a Starbucks near where he’d first gone begging — literally — for work.
“A product manager from Bitcoin.com was wondering if I could work remotely of if I want to relocate to Tokyo,” he said, with wonder in his voice as he scrolled through the offers. “But tonight, I’ll be back on my bench in Rengstorff Park.” Casarez grew up in the border town of Laredo, Tx. He earned a bachelors in management information systems from Texas A&M University, landed a good web developer job at General Motors in Austin, but then cashed out his 401-K and drove to Silicon Valley to pursue the dream of his own tech startup — only to run out of cash in June.
On Friday, he dressed as best he could — “To be presentable to my future employers,” he explained — and set out with his new sign and a stack of resumes in a FedEx envelope. By mid-afternoon Saturday, California time, Scofield’s photos of Casarez and his resume had been retweeted more than 50,000 times, and liked nearly 70,000 times. “It’s been happening very quickly, and I’m in shock,” he said. “I wasn’t expecting that kind of response,” he added. “It kinda blew up.”
My opinion.
I think he found the best way to get a job.
First of all, he did unique method to apply job.
That method is unique in the US, but very popular in Korea.
In the election season, every candidate bring their resume in every crossroads and folding their waist towards car like this.
Second, he did not hide his situation like homeless, and poor.
Usually, people want to give interviewer their best situation but he didn't.
It would get more point from job offers.
Finally, he uses social media for job seeking by accident.
Actually, David Casarez didn't use tweeter for job seeking but other person advertise his resume to others by his own tweeter even he didn't know David Casarez.
I think he could get new chance for next step, and i hope he get best result to job seeking and his life.