I've got a ton to do but I just HAD TO stop and write something about this.
A Yale senior student - doesn't that school ever get tired of graduating idiots? (for those who missed it, GWBush is a Yaler) - sent an 11-page CV to UBS, and alongside it, a "brief video about why he was so special". His name Aleksey Vayner, by the way, so if you meet him (hey, the Harvard-Yale game is on the 18th of November! Anyone going? I am!!!) please LAUGH AT HIS FACE!
I first read about in Lucy Kellaway's column "business life" in yesterday's FT (monday October 23 2006).
Of course, the video was quickly on YouTube and it has gone around the world. If you missed it, here it is:
COME ON! Don't you luuuuuuuuv his video CV?? Seriously!! He titled it 'Impossible is Nothing' (ha! He stole Adidas' slogan!!) and he is dancing with a girl in bikini on his resume video!!! Dude!! Why don't you put your mensurations on the video as well, with an exclusive footage of your latest visit to the rectologist!!
The guy, of course, having 'become the internet's latest victim of mass global ridicule' has 'crawled away under a stone, from where he is muttering about privacy and law suits'.
Kellaway things he's an interesting phenomenon, and I agree but for a different reason. She sees that he is a 'warning to employers' who should be 'careful what they wish for': after all, the guy just got the big slogans on investment banks websites, the kind of 'work hard, play hard' or 'if people stand in the way of your success, remove them', etc. and spat them out. And when personified, those slogans become an ugly, stupid, ersatz of a person.
I think he's interesting because, well: he's an idiot :)
First, don't send a link to a video THIS EMBARASSING!!! It'll be out in no time! Seriously, did he really think that the HR at UBS were so dull and actually believed in this crap? Dude, they're people and the browse the internet!
Naaah, more seriously: he is interesting because this is what kids things we have to do to get a bloody job: mutter nonsense and pretend to be a machine. Whereas, for instance, McKinsey's interview includes a 'personal' section (dixit Dave) where they actually enquire about your activities and life experiences.
Young graduates actually believe that slogan crap. "Are you Morgan Stanley?" was a poster I saw in a school employment fair; I got into an argument with the jerk at the stand for their company being too conformist (and I never applied, of course).
Apparently, it takes making a fool of oneself, and pledging to live by the corporate rules is supposed to make you hiring material. That's almost sad.
Well, he finally interviewed for MSNBC! He is sooooooooooooooo fucking full of himself. Seriously, the only reason I would hire the guy just for the fun of firing him!!!!
Oh, and of course - UBS didn't offer him a job :)
A Yale senior student - doesn't that school ever get tired of graduating idiots? (for those who missed it, GWBush is a Yaler) - sent an 11-page CV to UBS, and alongside it, a "brief video about why he was so special". His name Aleksey Vayner, by the way, so if you meet him (hey, the Harvard-Yale game is on the 18th of November! Anyone going? I am!!!) please LAUGH AT HIS FACE!
I first read about in Lucy Kellaway's column "business life" in yesterday's FT (monday October 23 2006).
Of course, the video was quickly on YouTube and it has gone around the world. If you missed it, here it is:
COME ON! Don't you luuuuuuuuv his video CV?? Seriously!! He titled it 'Impossible is Nothing' (ha! He stole Adidas' slogan!!) and he is dancing with a girl in bikini on his resume video!!! Dude!! Why don't you put your mensurations on the video as well, with an exclusive footage of your latest visit to the rectologist!!
The guy, of course, having 'become the internet's latest victim of mass global ridicule' has 'crawled away under a stone, from where he is muttering about privacy and law suits'.
Kellaway things he's an interesting phenomenon, and I agree but for a different reason. She sees that he is a 'warning to employers' who should be 'careful what they wish for': after all, the guy just got the big slogans on investment banks websites, the kind of 'work hard, play hard' or 'if people stand in the way of your success, remove them', etc. and spat them out. And when personified, those slogans become an ugly, stupid, ersatz of a person.
I think he's interesting because, well: he's an idiot :)
First, don't send a link to a video THIS EMBARASSING!!! It'll be out in no time! Seriously, did he really think that the HR at UBS were so dull and actually believed in this crap? Dude, they're people and the browse the internet!
Naaah, more seriously: he is interesting because this is what kids things we have to do to get a bloody job: mutter nonsense and pretend to be a machine. Whereas, for instance, McKinsey's interview includes a 'personal' section (dixit Dave) where they actually enquire about your activities and life experiences.
Young graduates actually believe that slogan crap. "Are you Morgan Stanley?" was a poster I saw in a school employment fair; I got into an argument with the jerk at the stand for their company being too conformist (and I never applied, of course).
Apparently, it takes making a fool of oneself, and pledging to live by the corporate rules is supposed to make you hiring material. That's almost sad.
Well, he finally interviewed for MSNBC! He is sooooooooooooooo fucking full of himself. Seriously, the only reason I would hire the guy just for the fun of firing him!!!!
Oh, and of course - UBS didn't offer him a job :)
1 comment:
Have no idea who UBS yes (I could google it, but for what use?!), but they just created a star. I mean, this guy is just famous (I never heard I've him either until now) - he should follow his advices for ones - impossible is nothing - and let us know when he will make his first million bucks. :-D
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