No Resume, No Cover Letter — Instagram Scored the Job

Clark Walker didn't want to be a doctor. He thought he did — at least, for a while. But by the time his fourth year as a pre-med student at Utah State University rolled around, he had hit a wall.

Each sit-in surgery and exam, and the lifestyle, culture and work that came with it never felt right, never felt like him. So he dropped out.

Roughly two years later, he's working as a barber in New York, a job he acquired entirely through Instagram

He completed every step of the process, from learning about the position to applying for it to showing off his portfolio work, through the photo-sharing social networkNo resume, no cover letter — just hashtags and filters Read more...