Congratulations to our Yankees vs. Mets subway series tickets winner David Ortiz, human resources generalist at Harlequin. David has been using Mediabistro’s job board since he joined Harlequin because it “ensures that our career opportunities reach a large pool of qualified candidates.”

When we asked him how he felt about winning the tickets, he said, “I was very surprised to receive the call. It put a big old smile on my face. I’m grateful to have won the contest.” We’re glad he won, too!

If you didn’t win, you still have many chances to win one of our fabulous giveaways. Keep posting jobs with us, and we’ll continue to enter you into our contests as a token of our appreciation.

We here at MediaJobsDaily are leery of using superlatives like “most amazing” as there’s almost always something more amazing down the pike, but this resume is actually, sincerely great and may be the “greatest.”

Just look at this:

Look harder…..

Yeah, that’s not an Amazon page. It’s his resume. And yet all the typical Amazon bells and whistles are there….the fonts match…the checkboxes are checkable…even the search bar works (though if you change the category away from Job Candidates to anything else, an alert pops up that asks, “Seriously? You’d rather go shopping?”)

The resume has already gotten over 800,000 visitors. Go be the 800,001st because you really gotta see it.

An ad agency run by high schoolers has taken on its first paying client.

The Innovation in Advertising and Media High School’s agency, IAM Advertising, will promote the National Black Programming Consortium’s upcoming PBS documentary series, “DC Met: Life Inside School Reform.”

Series executive producer Jacquie Jones told AdAge that she hoped the kids could create a social media campaign that would get their peers to discuss the problems they see with education.

Plus, “They have a better idea of how to reach their peers than we do,” she said.

They’ve had one brainstorming session with the documentary’s producers, and came up with the idea of a “major stunt,” otherwise undescribed, that the producers love.

The teen-run agency is also partnering with Digitas on the campaign, and fees paid to IAM Advertising will go back to the school.

The IAM High School has about 300 students and graduated its first class this year. Of the 47 graduating students, about a third are planning to pursue advertising careers. This real-world experience will look great on a resume for sure.

By the way, here’s a trailer for the doc:

DC met 4mins Trailer from NBPC on Vimeo.

Because Wooga.com has the greatest recruiting page we have seen in a long time.

Wooga makes Facebook games like Diamond Dash, but the company is gearing up to release more.

The top of the page for a job listing for a story writer for a new game features a message from one of the game’s characters. “Dear Future Colleague, My name is Vincent and I am an anthropologist in a new Wooga game.” Awesome. The list of qualifications: blessedly short. The “why should you work here” pitch: long on content. An ATS system that you have to apply through, but a photo and name of a real human to contact if you have any questions. The page itself is colorful and gives a sense of the company culture, without being too wacky (though opinions may vary on the weird Einstein-looking octopus).

Seriously, sign us up.

This week, the employee manual at Valve (makers of Half-Life 2, Portal, and other super-successful games) was leaked online.

It makes us want to work there.

Employees choose the projects they want to work on. You’ve heard of 20% time? Valve is “100% time”. There aren’t any bosses, per se, but people “in charge” (which seems to be a loose term at Valve) discourage overtime.

Not to mention the usual perks like free food, games tables, massages, etc.

Good gravy.

This could explain why Valve could be worth billions, and its profit-per-employee is higher than Google or Facebook.

The manual‘s authenticity was confirmed by Doug Lombardi, Valve’s vice president of marketing.

By the way. If you really don’t want to learn to code (okay, us neither), there are a few openings posted for media types, including one for an artist, a film editor, and sound engineer. And the company hires two to three new people each month, so if you don’t see anything you like right now, check back. Expect heavy competition (duh).

Okay, so it happened nearly a century ago, but it’s still a great cover letter—and one that writer Robert Pirosh didn’t customize, but instead mass-mailed to as many employers as he could think of.

Pirosh had just returned to New York (by way of a year in Europe) and was hoping to make it in Hollywood as a screenwriter.

Here’s what he wrote, via Letters of Note:

Dear Sir:

I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde. I like suave “V” words, such as Svengali, svelte, bravura, verve. I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words, such as splinter, grapple, jostle, crusty. I like sullen, crabbed, scowling words, such as skulk, glower, scabby, churl. I like Oh-Heavens, my-gracious, land’s-sake words, such as tricksy, tucker, genteel, horrid. I like elegant, flowery words, such as estivate, peregrinate, elysium, halcyon. I like wormy, squirmy, mealy words, such as crawl, blubber, squeal, drip. I like sniggly, chuckling words, such as cowlick, gurgle, bubble and burp.

I like the word screenwriter better than copywriter, so I decided to quit my job in a New York advertising agency and try my luck in Hollywood, but before taking the plunge I went to Europe for a year of study, contemplation and horsing around.

I have just returned and I still like words.

May I have a few with you?

Robert Pirosh
385 Madison Avenue
Room 610
New York
Eldorado 5-6024

Everybody is talking about Dollar Shave Club, the site that launched on Tuesday and promises to send you a month’s supply of razor blades for a buck plus shipping.

The premise is sexy enough that that fact alone might have grabbed them plenty of new business, but we’re betting the hilarious promo video didn’t hurt.

It feels Old Spice-y (more tennis, fewer horses) but cost $4500 to make.

On the first day, Business Insider says, the site crashed from interest. Dollar Shave Club still managed to sign up 5,000 subscribers that day, which was Tuesday. Now they’re up to 12,000.

CEO Michael Dubin told BI:

The wonderful thing about Dollar Shave Club is that we get to tell a unique story these days and build a unique brand because we’re on the internet and because the rules are different there.
We can be irreverent, but we can be direct. If you look at the video, we are communicating the whole time the product and service benefits. We’re talking about product and pricing. We’re talking about convenience. Yes, there’s a couple of jokes that don’t talk about the business there, but our goal with creating the video was to teach people about our business. And give them a laugh at the same time and that’s going to make them remember it more. I don’t see humor as a conflict. I see it as a vehicle to communicate those same points that other people are doing in a very dry way.

Is there a line that you can cross and it becomes too funny? No I don’t think you can be too funny, but I think you can get too sloppy, but we’re never going to get sloppy. We’re always going to be very communicative with our customer about their product benefits. I’m sure we’ll make mistakes along the line and we’ll be very direct about that as well.

Buying your razors doesn’t have to be a boring, humorless experience. In my opinion nothing should be a boring, humorless experience. If I can make five minutes out of everybody’s month an enjoyable five minutes and they get a great shave on the other end of that, then I’m really happy and I’ve done my job.

For more about this startup, read the interview. Just a reminder that a really slick-looking video can have a huge impact with not very much money.

Here’s a Tuesday evening moment of Zen (can we say that?): a wannabe art director’s “hire me” video. Can someone give her a job if only to ensure that this song never happens again?

Looking for… a job. from Fernanda Roedel on Vimeo.

In all seriousness, major props for having the balls (figuratively) to put this out there.

Dallas-based The Marketing Arm, a marketing and promotions company, is offering a fairly big chunk of cash to anyone who’s been with the company 7 years or more.

According to the Dallas Morning News the company has recently announced that anyone who’s been with the company for seven years will get seven days off and $2,500 to do something crazy they’ve never had the time or money for. Employees with 15 years of service will get 15 days off and $5,000.

The program will cost between $125,000 and $200,000 each year, depending on how many people take the offer.

The catches:

The days have to be taken in one chunk. The time and money must be used to do something personally rewarding or something that betters the lives of others. A four-person review committee approves proposals.

About 50 staffers qualify this year (including those who’ve already passed a seven- or 15-year milestone). Some of the things they’ve planned:

Travis Dillon, director of property management, wants to go to surfing camp in Costa Rica.
Stu Hill, senior conceptor (that’s someone who creates marketing concepts), wants to travel to India for a meditation retreat.
Michelle Palmer, senior vice president, wants to learn how to paint at an art school in Sedona, Ariz.

The Marketing Arm is a part of Omnicom and counts AT&T, Frito-Lay, American Airlinesand GameStop among its clients.

It’s always nice to see media pros put something together that just blows up.

And that’s what happened when Jesse Rosten, who has spent the last eight years producing commercials for local businesses, put a parody ad up for a fake beauty product called “Fotoshop by Adobé”.

Here’s the video:

On Youtube, the video has 2.2 million views, plus another 3.4 million views on Vimeo.

All for a shoot that, Rosten told the blog A Photo Editor, was made by all volunteers and donated equipment. The biggest expense, Rosten said, was buying food for everyone on the day of the shoot.

“My inbox has been a mess—a lot of inquiries and interest. I haven’t turned it into any paying gigs yet, but now I feel like I can justify putting time and resources into this,” he said. Meanwhile, he doesn’t find it all that surprising that he was able to go viral on such a low budget: that has “always been my thing because I haven’t had a lot of resources. One of the things I like most about filmmaking is creative problem solving—whether that’s coming up with a creative story or coming up with a creative way to make due with few resources. Right now I feel like I can do anything with a camera and a few worklights.”