Bold Move: Man Smoking Cigarette in Linkedin Photo

20 January 2013, 9:00am

Josh Hampton, 35, recently moved to Perth from Sydney on the hunt for a lucrative career in mining & gas.

Hampton decided to set up a Linkedin account to help him get noticed and land a job. Linkedin is a professional networking too - similar to Facebook, however members finely hone their images to appear more employable then they may be.

It seems that Hampton lives by his own rules and instead of using a professional head shot as his profile photo, he decided to put up a photo of himself enjoying the shit out of a cigarette. To most people, using a profile photo that shows you smoking is madness, not for Hampton though, he told us:
"Linkedin has an important visual aspect to it. I can guarantee that the photo of me sucking down a Winnie Blue will grab the attention of employers and they will probably click on my profile. I think the durry also demonstrates that I am a bit of a maverick and am wiling to take risks to benefit myself and my employer".
A maverick is right. We spoke to a Helen McDonald, a leading recruitment consultant in Perth, she had this to say:
"wow, would you have a look at that photo. It is additionally atrocious as he seems to be holding the cigarette like a marijuana joint and has a blank look of bliss in his beady eyes. It has to be one of the worst profile photos I have ever seen on Linkedin. Josh has totally missed the mark".
We initially sided with Helen McDonald on this one - that was before we got a call from Hampton who told us:
"Gina Rinehart personally called me. She told me that she herself had a reckless disregard for her health and image and generally ate half a bucket of KFC per day. She then offered me a job. Say hello to Gina's personal 'food-getter'. Did things turned out the way I planned? Probably not, but $100,000.00 a year to feed the Rinehart - WINNING".
If you are struggling to break into your chosen industry, perhaps post a photo of yourself smoking on Linkedin.

2 Readers Comments:

  • Unknown says:
    April 8, 2015 at 9:26 PM


    A person popular aspect with Cartier different watches can be found for it has the four-digit computer code a blueprint statistics, which may patek philippe replica avoid the repeat styles bought sold in the market. A swiss wrist watches that happen to be geared towards women of all ages will be designed by using jewelry. A Cartier different watches are usually not exclusively considered symbolic with splendor plus high-quality and for a description with top-quality finely-detailed. A Cartier appeared to be the earliest to use the dispute of producing bank different watches, which often can exhibit a genuine time frame for the duration of air travel the selected profession despite chanel replica sale tension plus altitude adaptations. On top of that, you'll find it functions luxury elements. By way of example, a exercises will be out of Europe machines for instance Vacheron, Constatin, Audemars-Piguet, Movado plus The Coultre. If you're, you can own your Rolex will be to demonstrate being successful. Spotted notables currently have said this fails to have some may be fails for a dude, and therefore lots of really costed plus flourishing commercial travellers private all these gilded condition signs that they've end up being the apogee with rolex replica uk the work community adornment. You can find a little something about that cleanse call, plus macho stainless steel instance that is definitely frightening, robust, qualified. It is really almost never unusual this Rolex is actually a domestic term sometimes concerning young families that might exclusively ponder on getting a person.

  • Unknown says:
    April 17, 2017 at 12:28 AM

    This Article is for smokers.DHgate Coupon

Post a Comment

Have your say