When Lukas Yla travelled from Lithuania to San Francisco Silicon Valley he only had a limited amount of time to make an impression on the city’s top tech companies and land his dream job.
Yla, who worked as a chief marketing officer at a start up in Lithuania, knew that his job search would be difficult. Not only hadn’t he graduated from an American university but he also had no experience working in the States.
Instead of taking the usual route in handing out hundreds of resumes, Yla set up his own delivery service that hand delivered doughnuts to some of Silicon Valley’s top tech executives. Inside his donut delivery boxes, he attached a copy of his resume with a note that read: ‘Most resumes end up in the trash. Mine- in your belly’.
Speaking to Fox affiliate KCPQ, Yla described how he would walk 15 to 20 miles a day delivering doughnuts. Many questioned how he gained access to the buildings however after consideration were receptive to his unique strategy. Out of 40 deliveries, Yla has now managed to land 10 interviews.
After receiving one of Yla’s deliveries Get Around founder Jessica Scorpio tweeted ‘Love creative approaches to job hunting!’
He has also attracted the attention of delivery company Postmates, who’s logo he copied for his delivery service t-shirts. When the Postmates CEO caught onto Yla’s initiative, he invited him out for coffee.
‘We loved it,’ Kristin Schaefer, Postmates vice president of strategy, told KCPQ. ‘He's actually getting coffee with him next week, so you know, maybe he'll even get a job offer from us.’
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.