The Hilarious Way This Guy Scored 10 Job Interviews Is Actually Genius!

Finding a job can be absolutely brutal. If you've been on the job hunt for awhile or have been there before, you know how the process usually goes. You search for any openings online, apply through their website by filling out a lengthy questionnaire, attach your resume, and write a cover letter for each one. Your application then gets sent through their system and is basically thrown into a huge pile of other resumes that are probably quite similar. Chances are, a human never even sees your resume and cover letter, and your luck of being noticed is all in the hands of a computer system that picks and chooses certain resumes based off of specific key words. Then, there's the waiting aspect. You wait and wait for any sort of reply and you either don't hear back for a number of weeks or months or you get an automated email response that basically says, "Thanks, but no thanks." If this sounds at all familiar, we understand your pain. This one guy had had enough of that process, so he took matter into his own hands. His technique: donuts.

Lukas Yla, a 25-year-old marketing professional, was looking for work in San Francisco and was already over the process of sending in his resume through company websites. He decided to attach his resume to a box of donuts and deliver them to recruiters at area marketing agencies and tech firms, posing as a Postmates delivery person. The package delivered to each company was a box of fancy donuts that, as you know, is always enticing. Inside the box (besides some delicious, fresh donuts) was his resume front and center. That is something that the recipients couldn't help but notice. Quite brilliant, huh?

After delivering nearly 40 donut resumes, he certainly got some attention and feedback from these donut deliveries, including ten interviews. In the competitive field of marketing, getting noticed just may require you to find a way to stand out from the crowed, even if it is donut resume deliveries. 

Lukas said, "I was looking for the most direct way to reach decision makers at the companies. I thought that I might fail competing only on 'resume' level with other candidates that have work experience in San Francisco." After landing ten interviews, we think that he figured out how to get the attention of the companies.