Chris Barth, Hire Me

"Here's a guy who's going places - even if the only place he went yesterday was back and forth on 42nd Street.

Enterprising MBA Christopher Barth, fashionably dressed in a sharp suit and tie - not to mention a sandwich board reading "HIRE ME, '05 MBA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT" - spent the day handing out resumes to likely-looking would-be employers in Midtown.

"I've been trying the traditional methods of getting employment, but nothing so far has come...
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"Here's a guy who's going places - even if the only place he went yesterday was back and forth on 42nd Street.

Enterprising MBA Christopher Barth, fashionably dressed in a sharp suit and tie - not to mention a sandwich board reading "HIRE ME, '05 MBA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT" - spent the day handing out resumes to likely-looking would-be employers in Midtown.

"I've been trying the traditional methods of getting employment, but nothing so far has come up that's suitable," said Barth, 25.

"My wife, Jamie, and I came up with this idea and I thought, 'Wow, yes, that might work.'

"Almost every vacancy is advertised on the Internet now, and you have to apply for everything via e-mail," he lamented. "No one wants to talk to you directly. It's impossible to make human contact, which makes it difficult to stand out from the crowd when you're trying to get a job.

"I'm prepared to try whatever it takes, and at the end of the day on the streets I head back home and search online."

Barth - who has a BA in Japanese language and literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst - is hoping for a career in project management, and is more than happy to start at the bottom.

He graduated from the Metropolitan College of New York with his MBA a month ago, has studied in Japan and is proficient in the language.

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By the end of the day, Barth, who lives in Brooklyn, had already set up two interviews and been handed nearly a dozen business cards.

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"I've had some interesting looks, a lot of smiles. People are curious," he said.

"I'll be trying this tactic for five or six days and then I'll reassess how successful it's been. A lot of people have been stopping to talk to me.

"It's difficult to know how well it's working until I sit down and look carefully into what I've achieved today."

He concluded that his sandwich-board experience was "very positive." (...)"

BIZ-JOB SEEKER'S BOARD WALK - New York Post
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