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Old 10-13-2006, 06:06 PM
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Default Hilarious "resume" video

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Student’s video resume has Wall Street howling
Weightlifting, waltzing, bragging clip quickly has gone viral



• Video resume becomes joke of Wall St.
Oct. 12: College student Aleksey Vayner's video resume – with his weightlifting and dance moves – is getting him notice. But not the kind that may get him a job, as CNBC's "On the Money" shows.

Updated: 10:37 a.m. PT Oct 13, 2006
Another recruiting year, another job applicant humiliation. This season, Yale senior Aleksey Vayner went far beyond the usual misaddressed e-mail or keyboard-in-mouth embarrassment.

Vayner, an aspiring investment banker, sent a video entitled "Impossible is Nothing" along with an 11-page resume and glamour shot to financial services powerhouse UBS. Within hours scores of investment banks noticed his application, as bankers e-mailed the seven-minute video and turned Vayner into the biggest joke on Wall Street.

As long as there have been job applicants, there have been application gaffes. Today, with e-mail as the preferred mode of corporate communication, that embarrassing camera phone picture or salacious IM to a coworker quickly travels far beyond company walls. So too can a boastful resume or cover letter.

That’s certainly what happened to Vayner. UBS is launching an internal investigation to figure who, if anyone, within the company leaked Vayner’s cover letter, over-the-top resume and video. Regardless of how it ended up in the Internet, Vayner's video has been passed from Bain Consulting, to Barclay's Capital, to Bank of America, even into Congress. The video quickly went viral, traveling from several blogs and onto YouTube, which eventually removed it from its sight, reportedly at Vayner's request.

In his video, Vayner shows off his varied skills: lifting a 495-pound weight, ballroom dancing to Latin musak, serving a tennis ball at 140 miles an hour, and, as a dramatic conclusion, breaking seven bricks with a karate chop.

"Ignore the losers, bring your A-game, your determination and your drive to the field and success will follow you," advised the budding management guru in his slight Russian accent. "If you want to dance, dance," he says, before expertly waltzing a scantily clad woman around the room.

Vayner probably won't be hired on Wall Street any time soon, but e-embarrassment doesn't have to be career ending, says hiring experts. "You certainly have a reputation," says Richard Castellini Vice President of Consumer Marketing at CareerBuilder.com, "but still being young, someone might take a chance on you."
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Old 10-13-2006, 06:09 PM
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That's almost as bad as sending a resume with a second page.
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Old 10-13-2006, 06:13 PM
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I only bench-pressed 325 on my resume video.
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Old 10-13-2006, 06:15 PM
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I only bench-pressed 325 on my resume video.
I think we should link this to the Investment Banker vs. Actuary threads in Careers.
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Old 10-13-2006, 06:16 PM
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I kept thinking of the Rocky IV line, "I will break you."
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Old 10-13-2006, 06:23 PM
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In Russia, your video resume submits YOU.
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Old 10-13-2006, 06:33 PM
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See the video here,
http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/2006...banking_1.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15250703/from/RS.2/
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The video quickly went viral, traveling from several blogs and onto YouTube, which eventually removed it from its sight, reportedly at Vayner's request.
Niiiice.
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Old 10-13-2006, 06:36 PM
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Wow. Now that video makes me want to jump his bones. If I were a recruiter, I'd be asking him to "flex his muscles" for me.
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I only bench-pressed 325 on my resume video.
What a wuss. I bet you only serve at 130 MPH and can only break 5 bricks bare handed.

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Old 10-13-2006, 06:38 PM
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495? Wow, that guy is a Bolt wannabe.
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