You have surely heard about "the best job in the world" contest by now created by Australia's Tourism Queensland (if not, here's a BoingBoing post). In order to get an interview for this dream gig, participants do not send in a resume and an essay (boring), but instead submit 60-second video presentations explaining who they are why they should be selected. You can checkout some of the top candidates still in the running on The Best Job in The World website. Currently there are 50 on the short list. TQ will choose 10 to interview plus one more wild card pick based on viewer's votes. Some of these are quite good. Remember: the goal is not to land a job in the one-minute video presentation, the objective is to state your case (or make your pitch) and make a connection in such a way that you can land one of the interviews. The interviews are where you really make or break the deal. In a way, then, this is similar to a resume in "the real world." No one's going to hire you based only on your resume (or your video, or your blog, or presentations, your book, etc.) alone. But the effective presentation of who you are, regardless of medium, is the first step to opening the doors of opportunity. So, if you were asked to make a one-minute video presentation for your dream job (or business idea, etc.), how would you do it? Checkout the Best Job website to view the videos. Below are some of my favorites (though I have not seen them all, so feel free to point out the ones you like best).
The samples above are not necessarily the most popular or technically superior pitches, but somehow after watching them I'm curious to hear more. Anny clearly has a future in broadcasting and Mitchell has a future on stage. There are others which are excellent on the site; which are your favorites?
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Wow...these were all so great. Each one of them caught your interest, but in a different way. The possibilities are endless for others as well. I would love to see some of the worst though! Think anyone made a video of PowerPoint slides with bullet points of their accolades and accomplishments?
They're all really cool. I like Mitchell's a lot, because the whole clip was one long scene, which must've been hard to do; they probably had to take a lot of takes. Anny was really cool and funny and I think Ben's craziness and outgoing style will make him fit the job really well.
Interestingly, the best videos are not necessarily done by the strongest candidates. It's also interesting to check out the many videos which were not selected on YouTube, to see the amount of work and skill that went into those who were.
Mitchell's was definitely sticky, whether the job suited him or not.
With Ben, I felt he could handle the job without a problem and make blog readers keep coming back.
The key, for me, was that the person didn't seem rushed in their 1 minute. One PZ blog entries talked about "go deep or go broad". The entries that tried to do both didn't fly with me.
The people who left me wanting more were the ones I'd call in for an interview. If I can know everything about you (or feel that I do) in a minute...there's not much there.
Absolutely wonderful, thanks for sharing these. The one thing I really liked about all of them was that they managed to sneak in a few interesting facts about Australia. A job candidate should always show that they are knowledgeable about that which they are interviewing for. Surprisingly many job candidates still do not do enough (or any!) research on the job location or the job requirements.
Looks like nowadays extremely short presentations are becoming more and more popular in various fields. (no wonder with people trying to save time on all ends)
A great TV show that shows this trend (and highly recommend) is 'Dragon's Den' where entrepreneurs can ask multi-million investors for money via a 2-minute presentation.
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You'll have to do a follow up, If you only had 500 words to wow the judges.
Days fly by fast when you're obsessing about The Best Job In the World and trying to write a witty yet informative yet eye catching essay with only 500 words to work with.
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Posted by: Adeline | March 08, 2009 at 04:04 PM
clare's video resume is absolutely my favorite one, and mitchell should really be on stage! great job.
Posted by: Sebastiano Mereu | March 08, 2009 at 07:03 PM
It seems that the ones at the top were more about their passion than about themselves. All of them were great and very creative.
Posted by: Michael Sporer | March 08, 2009 at 11:49 PM
Amazing - truly an innovative way to present & invite people to apply for job.
Posted by: neeraj | March 09, 2009 at 02:52 AM
It's tough to beat Mitchell's big production number, but I also liked Clarke's humor, Greg's taking teaching to the streets, and Julia's editing.
Posted by: Todd Chandler | March 09, 2009 at 03:46 AM
My favorite might have been Mitchell's just because it was hilarious and well done. But I thought Ben made the most compelling case for himself.
Posted by: Brock | March 09, 2009 at 05:08 AM
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Posted by: Jon | March 09, 2009 at 08:51 AM
They're all really cool. I like Mitchell's a lot, because the whole clip was one long scene, which must've been hard to do; they probably had to take a lot of takes. Anny was really cool and funny and I think Ben's craziness and outgoing style will make him fit the job really well.
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Posted by: Oliver (ReThink Presentations) | March 10, 2009 at 06:39 AM
Mitchell wins my vote. Just spectacular. Love the tongue in cheek opening about Canada being too cold.
Posted by: Denise Young | March 10, 2009 at 05:37 PM
My favourite application was Holly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCbTZjgqeo8
http://www.islandreefjob.com/#/Holly
www. "but the beaches won't need my CV, neither will the birds. let me show the fishes my dance moves, let me show the world your sun." how cool is that?
I also like the tone of Kat's application.
http://www.islandreefjob.com/#/Kat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMeJebKi5Jc
Interestingly, the best videos are not necessarily done by the strongest candidates. It's also interesting to check out the many videos which were not selected on YouTube, to see the amount of work and skill that went into those who were.
Posted by: jerome | March 10, 2009 at 08:01 PM
I enjoyed George from Ireland. I loved the way he included the island names in his monologue.
I also enjoyed discovering the ways each participant focused on either themselves or the job that needed to be done. Fascinating.
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Now this is very interesting, impressive and never thought of. In simple words well done for providing creative information.
Posted by: Jeff Paul Internet Millions | March 11, 2009 at 01:22 PM
You have to watch Cali Lewis' presentation from GeekBrief.tv...
http://www.geekbrief.tv/gbtv-523-apple-product-refreshes-best-job-in-the-world-contest
she gets my vote :)
Posted by: Rod | March 12, 2009 at 06:34 AM
Mitchell and Ben were definitely my favs.
Mitchell's was definitely sticky, whether the job suited him or not.
With Ben, I felt he could handle the job without a problem and make blog readers keep coming back.
The key, for me, was that the person didn't seem rushed in their 1 minute. One PZ blog entries talked about "go deep or go broad". The entries that tried to do both didn't fly with me.
The people who left me wanting more were the ones I'd call in for an interview. If I can know everything about you (or feel that I do) in a minute...there's not much there.
Posted by: Jill | March 12, 2009 at 11:15 PM
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Posted by: Gretchen | March 14, 2009 at 03:41 AM
Thank you for sharing, Garr!
Looks like nowadays extremely short presentations are becoming more and more popular in various fields. (no wonder with people trying to save time on all ends)
A great TV show that shows this trend (and highly recommend) is 'Dragon's Den' where entrepreneurs can ask multi-million investors for money via a 2-minute presentation.
Have a look here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE6tTMDgEdA&feature=related
Posted by: Ben A. Ratje | March 17, 2009 at 10:11 PM
http://www.islandreefjob.com/#/applicants/watch/NGoHzDH2ig0
I really liked Mary Beth's!
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Great inspirationl presentations - thanks
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