Enterprising Job Search.

An article in the Guardian today, shows how enterprising you have to be these days to get a new job.... especially if you are a graduate.

This guy, Féilim Mac An Iomaire,( I wonder how you pronounce this) is a marketing graduate who knew he needed to do something dramatic to enhance his opportunity for a new job. As emigration is such a hot topic in Ireland right now, he really hit the mark.

The ad contains a picture of the 26-year-old marketing graduate facing a number of famous landmarks from Sydney, London and New York with the message: "Save me from emigration."

His ad has struck a chord across Ireland at a time when around 50,000 citizens, many of them young graduates, are expected to leave the Republic this year for work abroad. There are still up to 400,000 jobless workers in Ireland due to the property crash and the country's fiscal crisis.

Mac An Iomaire said he came up with the idea after being unemployed for eight months after a year abroad in Australia.

"I had a good bit of money saved when I came home from Australia but I was managing to live on jobseeker's allowance. I gave it a week of hard thinking to come up with the concept and nothing was going to stop me then," he said.

"The great thing is that everyone's been so positive about it, no one has really had a bad word to say.


This is a perfect example that these days you have to go that extra mile to land your dream job.

What ideas do you have that could kickstart your job search?