As a student who just completed full-time recruiting, I know how difficult it is for students looking to break into IBD or PE.  So while I sympathize with the stressed out students who are killing themselves to get jobs, sometimes hilarious stories do need to get told.

About five minutes after receiving an email from a career adviser entitled “What Not To Do During Your Job Search”, I received the email chain which has been flying across Wall St. over the past week.  For those who have been on vacation the last week, the controversial email tells the story of Jeffrey Chiang, a UT Student who took lying during his job search to extreme.

The summary from Dealbreaker:

Chiang apparently interviewed at Bank of America, where he was asked if he had any offers from other firms. Jeffrey claimed that he was in his second round of interviews with Morgan Stanley. An associate at BofA then contacted his friend at Morgan about Jeffrey’s prospects. The Morgan guy said that contrary to popular belief, JC had only had a phone interview, at which time he claimed to have gotten a full-out offer from BofA. As proof, JC provided a fabricated email allegedly from a recruiting woman at Bank of America, who would probably be surprised to be informed she’d offered Chiang a job (and that she didn’t know how to spell “America”). The Morgan people forwarded the faux letter of employment back to the people at Bank of America who were doing recon and from there it was forwarded to the entire free world.

The full story can be found here (with hilarious comments by readers.)

At this point, enough jokes have been made about poor old Jeff (he was the 7th hottest search term on Google last Thursday) so I’d like to offer separate though equally hilarious advice.

DO NOT SEND VIDEO RESUMES

No matter how charming or witty you think you are – Video resumes can only portray you in a poor light.  No questions.

To prove my point, below are some of my favorite hilarious video resumes.

More real commentary coming this week – this was just a great opportunity to divulge my dislike of video resumes.  And seriously – if you disagree – please prove me wrong and send me a good one – I still am drawing a blank.

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