Landing a Job at W+K Involves a Knowledge of Chairs and Weather Reports

Here’s one way to get a job. By way of How It Happened, we were pointed to the blog run by Wieden + Kennedy‘s office in London, which detailed how they found their newest staffer. In short, he parked himself out in front of their building with an umbrella after sending the firm an e-mail saying, essentially, “I’m out front. If you’ve got the time to talk about a job, I’ll be out here.” And what would usually get a person arrested, instead got the recent university graduate a potential job.