HE SANG, DANCED FOR A JOB IN PR
Siddhanth Valecha, 24, was bored of being an architect and wanted to quit. But his dad had one condition — he had to find another job within a week. On Day 5, he landed an interview with a PR company. They weren’t impressed. Why would they want to hire an architect? Because he wanted it more than anyone else, he said. To prove it, he sang a little song, did a little dance. Later that day, he also called one of his interviewers back and pitched a product live, on the phone. He got an internship, and was hired full-time in just 25 days.
“His rawness was what I feel worked for him. His natural instinct is to engage people in conversation and that’s exactly what you need in order to make it in PR,” says Rinki Chellani, then client servicing head at the PR company.
Valecha now runs his own PR company, so yes, his dad agrees that the gamble paid off.