{"id":611,"date":"2006-10-22T12:44:34","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T16:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/10\/22\/how-not-to-get-attention\/"},"modified":"2006-10-22T12:44:34","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T16:44:34","slug":"how-not-to-get-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/10\/22\/how-not-to-get-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to get attention"},"content":{"rendered":"

A word to the wise: If you are applying for a job in the investment-banking industry (or anywhere else for that matter), and you come up with the bright idea of putting together a kind of video introduction as part of your application, try not to make it<\/a> a howlingly funny tribute to yourself, complete with pompous comments about leadership, clips of you bench-pressing 475 pounds (allegedly), ballroom dancing and smashing bricks with your hand.<\/p>\n

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If you ignore this advice, as Aleksey Vayner did, you will be begging for ridicule. And in a world that gave us the Star Wars Kid, the Tron guy<\/a>, the Numa Numa dance and many other even more embarrassing moments, ridicule is more than happy to come your way with or without the begging. Then the New Yorker<\/a> will pick it up and expand on it to an even greater extent, and eventually the New York Times will jump<\/a> on the bandwagon, and you will be the laughing-stock of North America, if not the world.<\/p>\n

Maybe investment banking isn’t ready for Aleksey, but there’s a spot for him somewhere on reality TV, I guarantee. Maybe a televised version of Dilbert’s Topper<\/a> character?<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b><\/p>\n

Check my comments for one from Jay Maynard — also known as The Tron Guy.<\/p>\n

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A word to the wise: If you are applying for a job in the investment-banking industry (or anywhere else for that matter), and you come up with the bright idea of putting together a kind of video introduction as part of your application, try not to make it a howlingly funny tribute to yourself, complete … <\/p>\n

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