Upping the Ante: $25K Reward for Finding an Unemployed Marketing Consultant a Job

A revamped resume can only do so much, even if you switch fonts and use bullet points and the right keywords and everything. That’s why a dad from Long Island with 15 years experience in marketing who was laid off six months ago is now offering a $25,000 reward to anybody who helps him land a job.

Scott Avidon, the jobless marketing consultant at hand, tells the Huffington Post:

“The amount of the reward will be based on the base salary that I get,” he told HuffPost. “So if I get a job with a base salary of $225,000 to $275,000, I’ll pay $25,000, and the only caveat is that I have to be employed for at least three months. I’m not gonna pretend I have $25,000 in the bank right now, but I will put it aside from my earnings, and after a few months I’ll have it and I’ll pay it.”

For those keeping track of such things (like me), this isn’t the first cash reward offered for a job lead, but as far as I know it has the biggest potential payoff for would-be amateur headhunters. There was also a jobless woman in Texas offering a $1,000 reward and a 50-year-old man in California offering $3,000 to anyone who helped them find gainful employment. There then was the group that paid to have a billboard put up announcing the hopes of millions around the country, stating plainly: “I need a freakin’ job.”

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tazaspice

Why not try Ntroduction.com? It is, by far, the largest referral exchange place I know of.
Heath

The real difference is the commission %, not the $25,000. He’s saying if you get him a job at roughly $225-$275k, that is roughly 10% commission.

The prior $3,000 offer was from a guy used to earning “6 digits” (probably barely above $100k), so lets say 3-4%.

I’m not sure what the woman who offered $1,000 was used to as a salary. “Analyst that collects paychecks” sounds like she worked in a payday loan shark office, so lets say she made $25k (especially when she’s thinking that the $1,000 offer would be her first paycheck). The offer is a roughly 3% commission.

So really, the $25k is 3x the two previous offers, but also the stupidest. Anyone connected enough to land a total stranger a $225k job has probably little need for $25k. Even if he/she did want the $25k, the money wouldn’t be worth the reputation risk if the guy turned into a dud.