Posted on 01/24/2007 2:06:18 PM PST by grundle
With a 3.88 grade point average at Carnegie Mellon University and a resume jammed with computer programming honors, 21-year-old Andrew Warshaver thinks he would be very valuable to a company looking for a summer intern.
Just how valuable?
Mr. Warshaver has turned to eBay to find out.
On Friday, he posted a picture of himself on the online auction site along with his resume and a note that "you are bidding on 12 weeks worth of my employment."
In the description, he also added that he interned at Google last summer, has taught computer classes at CMU for the past four semesters and that he already has "several competing offers and wanted to find out what I am worth on the free market."
Gary W. Florkowski, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh's Katz School of Business specializing in human resource management, chuckled when he heard about Mr. Warshaver's posting.
"This is a new one," he said, "but I'm not totally surprised by it."
Both employees and employers are using technology to make themselves stand out, he said, noting that the Marines are using MySpace as a recruiting tool and that some companies have announced jobs via podcast.
For his summer services, he set the bidding floor at $2,000 and has received two bids thus far: one for $5,000 and one for $5,100. He's unsure, however, whether they are legitimate offers, or just jokes from his friends.
Regardless, he's hoping the bidding goes higher. The offers that he already has in hand for the summer -- both from Wall Street financial firms -- are more in the $15,000 range, he said.
His initial instinct was to play the two firms off each other to maximize his salary. But then, he thought, why not open the market up to other suitors.
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With the bids coming in, he should be able to afford a razor and a suit.
Anyone want to steal an identity?
Nah.
I prefer to be me!
His getting national attention on this will probabaly cause him to lose the offers he has in hand.
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