There have been lots of stories of placement teams pulling stunts to get hired at agencies and students doing silly things to get on the best courses (Tony at Watford told us about a guy who had scaled the wall outside his office, broken in the window and left a grave stone in there - the idea being that we would die if he didn't get on the course) and we have had our fair share of interesting job applications but I think Colin the hamster takes the biscuit so far.
We interviewed a team for a place at DareSchool 08 the other day and then this morning one unsuspecting planner found Colin in his nice ball in the ground floor toilets. There is probably a Richard Gere gag here somewhere but I'll spare Haymarket the libel suit. Flo took a movie of Colin here, along with the rest of the story.
I'm not part of the 08 selection process so I cant say whether this stands them in good stead or not but they have certainly ticked the first box of any communication: get noticed.
The other interesting thing that Flo pointed out is that this is the sort of thing that only used to happen at the hottest of ATL agencies.....
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