'Google Please Hire Me' video goes viral (and even gets the graduate a job)

In these competitive and recession-struck times, job searchers must go to drastic measures in order to find employment.

One aspiring marketer was so disillusioned by the job application process that he decided he couldn't just sit by and wait for something to happen, but that he had to take drastic action.

So Matthew Epstein, from Florida, set his sights on Google and decided to set up a website entitled GooglePleaseHire.Me to get himself noticed.

On the website was a YouTube video, a plea to Google to hire him and his resume. But it was the video - which shows him in a fake moustache and suit swigging scotch - that attracted 720,000 hits to his site.

Although he did not land himself a job at Google, he managed to get a massive 80 job interviews and a job at a startup firm called SigFig in San Francisco.

Speaking to ABC, Matthew, who was three years out of college and still jobless when he made the website, said: 'The flurry wasn't manufactured by me. It was definitely much more organic than that.

'I was applying for jobs at LinkedIn but had no luck and started to feel discouraged so I decided you can't just sit and do standard stuff. You have to fight.'

The 24-year-old's postings was noticed by a technology blog, then another and another and it took off from there.

TechCrunch's Robin Wauters, one of the country's most popular technology blogs, wrote about the site: 'For what it's worth, Google has already gotten in touch with Epstein but informed him that he should go through the standard hiring processes over there.

'My spider senses are betting on Epstein getting hired rather swiftly, though.'

Matthew said that it was 'cool' travelling around the country for his 80 job interviews talking to companies like Microsoft and Amazon.

He said he was not disappointed at not getting a job at Google as he feel his skills are better suited with a startup firm.

'One of the best things I do is get people's attention, and Google doesn't need attention. With a startup, it's really about creating things, seeing your ideas really come to something without politics and red tape.'

Now Matthew's only problem is trying to find somewhere to live in a new city.

Source: Rachel Quigley, Dailymail.co.uk, Tuesday 13th September 2011