Tactics for your Job Search- Clever or Crazy??

The Boston Globe has a profile today of some job seekers who are going to extraordinary measures to market themselves for work...

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/07/07/tight_market_makes_job_seekers_ever_more_creative/

I've seen and heard about some pretty crazy antics...

In my recruiter days, I had people drop off resumes with an 8x10 photo of themselves... unfortunately, many of them were the equivalent of "Glamour Shots" and not appropriate for the workplace.

One other story was my friend's former coworker, a marketing person, who sent a folding chair to a company with a note that said, "I hope there's a seat for me there."

I also had a career coaching client who offered Red Sox tickets to the hiring manager for a particular role, hoping they could go together and get some face time. (He was told by another person at that firm, "forget the Red Sox tickets, send him a bottle of whiskey.") The manager didn't take him up on the tickets.

Here's my take on this tactic- the reporter/writer Robin Hamilton interviewed me about the Hire Pasha billboard last month: http://www.baystatebanner.com/local15-2009-06-25

Any other stories you've heard? And has ANYONE heard a story where something like this worked?

Kathy
Career Coach
TurningPoint