A few job seekers who are talented web developers, designers, videographers and writers have created such impressive resumes and cover letters, their job applications have gone viral.

The following applications have gotten people jobs at big tech companies and at Wall Street firms, and their CVs have been viewed a few million times on the web.

1. Journalist Dawn Siff created what's likely the first-ever resume on Vine, the new video startup Twitter recently acquired. Her message is only 6-seconds long, but it was featured on Mashable.


2. A student sent an unapologetically honest cover letter to an investment bank and people on Wall Street called it one of the best CVs they have ever seen. It spread from bank to bank and sites like Business Insider picked it up. "No joke, I think we should consider this guy," one banker wrote. "I wouldn't be surprised if this guy gets at least a call from every bank out there."


3. Another student, Mizzou's Chris Spurlock, designed a resume that looked like an infographic with the help of a fellow photojournalism student. It was featured on HuffPo College and tweeted more than 5,300 times. After the post received tens of thousands of pageviews, The Huffington Post hired Spurlock as its Infographic Design Editor.


4. Philippe Dubost is a web product manager who really wants to work for Amazon. He built a website that looks like a product page complete with a shopping cart and ads. It was tweeted by Yahoo Finance, Y Combinator and nearly 300 others.

5. This person turned his resume into a chocolate bar and was hired. His chocolate resume was picked up on Reddit and viewed more than 1 million times.


6. A freelance creative in NYC decided to get noticed by 3D printing his head at Makerbot's headquarters and sending it to prospective employers with the tag line: "Tiny head big ideas." It was featured on PFSK.


7. Alice Lee skipped four classes at UPenn to create a website/resume for Instagram, DearInstagram.byAliceLee.com. It didn't get her hired, but she did speak with founder Kevin Systrom on the phone; she ended up landing an internship with Path. Business Insider, The Atlantic and The Next Web wrote about it.




8. An NYU junior named Mark sent an overzealous CV to J.P. Morgan last year. It boasted his ability to do 35 pull-ups and quickly became the laughingstock of Wall Street. It was read by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, Citi, Deutsche Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Wells Fargo, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Perella Weinberg Partners, and Barclays Capital employees who forwarded the letter with responses such as: "Prepare to lol all over yourself."



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9. Financial analyst Jordan McDonnell wanted to change careers, but he had trouble getting his foot in the door. So he created a non-resume to show off his creativity. It was viewed about 90,000 times in one week.

This is NOT my resume from Jordan McDonnell



10. Perhaps the most viral resume of all time belongs to Aleksey (Vayner) Stone, who submitted a 7-minute video resume titled "Impossible is Nothing" to UBS when he was a senior at Yale. He also submitted a glamour shot, a 1.5-page resume and an 8-page writing sample. The video showed Stone ballroom dancing and bench pressing nearly 500 pounds. Unfortunately the video went viral in a bad way, and Wall Street made a mockery of Stone. A few weeks ago, Stone passed away at age 29 from a drug/medicine-induced heart attack.

Wow.

Some of them are amazing!

i am dazzeled especially number 5

wow
You just have to differentiate yourself from the crowd. That's the fastest legal way to go from grass to grace..Risky thou, as you make appear as been overconfident and arrogant.. Nothing good comes easy they say.
I have to revisit my CV asap.

Creativity is one of the sure way out of poverty.

hmmm!

I need to think something up too....i need a job.

Excellent Idea. Will revisit my CV ASAP.

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Ehwoooooo

am not sure this works in Nigeria...most employers don't even care about ur damn CV .. but you can always give it try, who knows?

How about fcck resumes.

Only creative employers will recognize creative employees...am sure that if most of that is done in Nigeria, it would go unrecognized and would never make history.

Copy and paste bloggers

in nigeria, ur resume is ur fathers friends nd relatives. Ask deiziani

No time jor... Just write your name, qualifications, hobbies, and referees.. Das all

bigfat12:

Source please.

Richiy: Only creative employers will recognize creative employees...am sure that if most of that is done in Nigeria, it would go unrecognized and would never make history.

You are right. We have got to start thinking outside of the box and stop being so dull and conservative in our ideas.

Creativity at it peak.

The chocolate bar was genius

with such creativity they are only wasting their talents they should rather die.

ok, let me resume to write a new resume...

abeg wat is resume

nwaobitex: abeg wat is resume

[size=15pt]RESUME IS CV?[/size]

bigfat12:

[size=15pt]RESUME IS CV?[/size]

is that a question?

nwaobitex: is that a question?

bigfat12: