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A Cover Letter To Penny Arcade
- MikeCapone 16y agoNow that is how you get noticed by a potential employer. Even if they don't hire him, someone else is bound to snag that guy up...
- wdewind 16y agoyeah, i really hope they do. awesome.
- peregrine 16y agoIt doesn't look like he made it into the top 3. http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/pa-the-series/112/ http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/pa-the-series/112/
- percept 16y agoI was thinking that you'd still need to get a potential employer to click through (unless the message was HTML formatted), which they might not do if they're inundated with responses. Maybe he or a friend should submit the cover letter and his story to the business press. Wouldn't they be interested in something like that (as a job-hunting innovation)?
- Timothee 16y agoExactly. I recently made a few webpages specifically for one job offer to go with my cover letter/resume. Unfortunately, these pages have never been opened… I couldn't think of the best way to do it: a very short cover letter basically saying "open that webpage to see my real cover letter" might just annoy the recipient; a somewhat regular cover letter (my choice then) with an invitation to open a link still needs to be distinctive enough to convince the recipient to click the link.
- atourino 16y agoWhy don't you start the story off with your email. If they are interested, they will click through to the rest of your pages.
- apphacker 16y agoWhat a horrible interview process and post-interview discussion. Even if I had gotten the job, after watching that self-important and vague, irrational driven reasoning process I'd promptly turn it down.
- TheSOB88 16y agoI think I know why: the only funny part was the last cell. And this man was trying desperately to be funny the whole time. Oh, and the "design". Humongous blank space on the left; comic pushed off to the right. I really hope he didn't send it like that.
- hugh3 16y agoI thought the final panel was less funny than several other bits. The dog? The food rapping? The fact that he's now Gabe and Tycho's son? The problem I see is that he seems to be angling less for the job as a designer and more for Gabe and Tycho's (wait, are those their real names?) job as a cartoonist. One might worry that he'd have to be repeatedly told "No, sit down and fix the website, stop pitching us strip ideas" I found a copy of the original job ad, btw: http://www.be-mag.com/msgboard/showthread.php?18856-Penny-Arcade-is-looking-to-hire-a-Designer http://www.be-mag.com/msgboard/showthread.php?18856-Penny-Ar...
- TheSOB88 16y agoWell, I didn't think those things were funny. They were just forced and random.
- jlgosse 16y agoI hope he gets the gig - he did a great job on this comic. Side note: Does anyone know where the job posting is? I'd like to see what they are actually looking for.
- someone_here 16y agohttp://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=823322 http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=823322
- percept 16y agoI think it just went bye-bye.
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- icco 16y agoHere is who got the job, according to LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=7248250&authToken=J4zN&authType=name&trk=coprofile_new_hire http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=7248250... Here is her personal site for those w/o LI. http://www.erikagreco.com/ http://www.erikagreco.com/
- icco 16y agoLooks like they are attacking Robert Ebert: http://www.erikagreco.com/portfolio-web.html http://www.erikagreco.com/portfolio-web.html
- CrazedGeek 16y agohttp://gamescanbeart.com/ http://gamescanbeart.com/
- InclinedPlane 16y agoIt's been filled, a few months back actually.
- scotje 16y agoThey actually covered the final interview process for this job in a couple episodes of PATV, starting here: http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/pa-the-series/112/ http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/pa-the-series/112/
- disturbances 16y agoLooks like this sort of thing is becoming a trend. I'm not sure if that's a good thing.
- sliverstorm 16y agoOh, like every other gimmick, it will become the hot thing to do. When it is overused and burnt out, it will die and everyone will hate it. Until then, a well-executed one is still fairly standout.
- Timothee 16y agoThis specific form might get overused and burnt out, but spending time on learning about the company and finding out and explaining why you are a great candidate for the opening will always require some time investment that not everyone will be ready to make. How you present it might change, but I'd think that it will always make you stand out. However, at the end of the day, the only thing it does is calling attention to your resume/portfolio, and making sure the company knows you're very interested. (rather than being one company out of tens to which you sent your resume) But if the resume/portfolio doesn't interest them, it won't change much.
- dpritchett 16y agoThis seems like a losing strategy: invest tens of hours in a single application for a highly visible opening with no expectation of a callback. I'd think an applicant would want to cast a wider net and then escalate investment in individal openings as hiring companies signaled some mutual interest. Maybe some rules of thumb are in order, i.e. x hours for an application, 2x hours for a first interview, etc.
- riffer 16y agoI'm not sure that's how designers think about things
- teej 16y agoYour time investment should also scale based on the value of the position. I know a position at Google would be immensely valuable to my career and pay more. In that situation, spending 10x time investment on my Google application vs my Joe's Coding Shack application seems natural.
- icco 16y agoIt's too bad his actual website is broken in FireFox, that seems like a bit of a downer compared to his awesome cover letter.
- boredguy8 16y agoI don't see what's so great about this comic. It's not funny, there's no perspective except an infatuation with PA, and a third of the comic is talking about what skills he doesn't have or other reasons to NOT hire him. I'm all for self-deprecation, but it should GO somewhere.
- WillyF 16y agoIt may be trendy, but I wouldn't call it a fad. The key to getting a job is demonstrating your skills. That's exactly what this comic does.
- alfredp 16y agoDoes any know if the job actually required Javascript? As cool as the comic was, it sounded like it was a must have.
- butterfi 16y agoWhether or not they hire him is moot -- funny and creative is a hard thing to get across, and he did a bang-up job. I'm sure he'll get noticed by someone.
- gaulinmp 16y agoMy vote is Hire. I'll be watching PA for your name. Good luck!
- iamdave 16y agoHire this man immediately.
- grumpyfart 16y agoThat's the kind of research and work that you need to do before applying any job. Not just sending you resume to 50 potential employees.