Article: Classic job-hunt. (advertising in verse)

PARIS Classic Job-Hunt Good jobs are hard to get everywhere, especially slots high on the executivve ladder, and so it pays to draw attention to yourself. This at least was the reasoning of one Frenchman who, in his job-hunting, had been unable so far to catch the eye of the right employer. So he decided to take out some expensive space in the help-wanted pages of the Paris daily Le Monde to advertise himself. But to make sure someone read it, he cast his appeal, which included his curriculum vitae, in Alexandrine verse, the chosen meter of such classical French writers as Racine and Corneille of the seventeenth century. After listing his ...

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