JOIN USSweet approach: Start-up job aspirant submits CV with pastries
How far will you go for a job? Aman Khandelwal from Jaipur posed as a
Zomato delivery boy and left a box of pastries at three Bengaluru offices with his resume inside.
The three offices he visited are Unacademy, Cred and Newton School. The package had a cheeky note: Most of the resumes end up in trash but mine in your belly.
“I handed over the package to security guards of these offices and told them to hand them over to their HR managers. I haven’t followed up on the same or met anyone,” Khandelwal tells Metrolife about his whacky experiment done in April while he was visiting his friends in the city. He was inspired by a similar experiment in the US in 2021. Khandelwal became a rage on social media when he posted about it recently. Why did he post about this gimmick so late? “I was concerned about how my friends and family would react. I spoke to my sister about this and she told me to post about it on social media,” he says.
After-effect
The 24-year-old MBA graduate is looking for a job as a product manager, and has received around 8-10 interviews since his post went viral. “I have got more followers on Twitter and more than 300 connection requests on LinkedIn now,” he says.
For the most part, he has received positive messages but some said his post made them “cringe”.
“I did this in Bengaluru because it has a strong start-up culture,” he says.
Ask him if he’s worried if Zomato would take any action against him and he says he would apologise and consult a lawyer, if needed.
What was the post?
On July 2, Aman posted on his social media with photographs: “Dressed as a
@zomato delivery boy I delivered my resume in a box of pastry. Delivered it to a bunch of startups in Bengaluru. Is this a @peakbengaluru moment.”
Zomato says...
Zomato Care has responded to the tweet, saying they hope the ‘gig’ landed him something meaningful. “The idea was great, execution — top of the line, impersonation — not so cool,” they added. Zomato was not available for further comments.
The law says...
Indra Dhanush, lawyer with the High Court, says that such an act can be penalised under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and intellectual property laws, for using a false property mark, forgery, defamation, and cheating by impersonation.