Man Highlights Failures On Resume, Gets More Job Interviews [Video]

Looking for a job is not fun. It’s a bunch of hoops to jump through and – at the end of it all – no guarantee of a job. In fact, the odds of actually getting the job after jumping through all those hoops are pretty pathetic.

Which is why the Interwebs are celebrating a guy for basing his resume on his failures.

Jeff Scardino, an ad executive, filled his resume with every failure, awful reference and non-skill acquired during his time as a working stiff. He went the George Costanza route and did the opposite of everything he thought might be the right decision.

And, sure enough, it worked.

Jeff applied for 10 jobs, all of which he was qualified for and really interested in.

His regular resume, trumpeting his accomplishments and successes, received one response and zero meeting requests, while his crappy resume, highlighting his failures and offering references that hated him, received eight responses and five meeting requests.

It was a bold move, but one that worked.

And in an interesting twist, a rewrite of the original article on the topic, one that gets Jeff's name wrong, is actually performing better in internet searches, proving that ineptitude in our culture succeeds.

Know anyone who's been failing up lately?

I will only add this caveat, he probably succeeded because his resume stood out because it was different from all of the others, if everyone does this, it may no longer work.

The relevant résumé is the first résumé that showcases your failures. To prove it works, I submitted two different applications for ten different job openings — one using my regular résumé and one using my relevant résumé.

www.therelevantresume.com