The $6 Job Hunt

Here's a great story about a guy who used Google Ad Words to get a job.  Via AgencySpy:

Alec Brownstein bought Google ad words for the creative directors' names, which cost him $6. "No one else was bidding on (the names)," he tells us, "so I got the top spot for like 10 cents a click." 

So, whenever Gerry Graf, David Droga, Tony Granger, Ian Reichenthal or Scott Vitrone Googled themselves (which is a lot it seems) the top sponsored link basically asked them for a job. In the end he got four interviews and two job offers.

Life at the bottom

I just stumbled across an amazing website called Life at the Bottom and it has a lot of great articles/resources for students and juniors. They also host interviews that are incredibly fun to read. And it's not just because they swear a lot and sometimes appear to be drunk, but it's also because they're not dry or formal. They're down to earth and make you feel like you're listening in on a really insightful conversation.
 
The latest interview is with Evan Fry. He's a former CP+B Creative Director and the founder of Victors & Spoils - an agency set up to utilize crowd-sourcing.  If that wasn't enough, he's also the man behind Be Fucking Awesome - a social network of sorts where you post your Fucking Awesome deeds, let the world vote on each one, and those votes contribute to your Awesome Quotient.