THE FLIPKART FLASH SALE

Aakash Mittal, 24, was in his final year of ocean engineering and naval architecture at IIT-Kharagpur when he heard that Flipkart was coming in for campus interviews. Desperate to stand out, he created a resume that looked exactly like a Flipkart product page, pitching himself as the product.

“I knew there were thousands of students vying for just a few interview slots, so I wanted to really get their attention,” he says.

He didn’t get a slot with the e-commerce major, but his CV was a big hit online and he got 14 other job offers — and 3 marriage proposals.

“It took me 70 hours to remodel my CV on Photoshop, but it was definitely worth the effort,” he says.

Mittal now works with Baghirathi, a logistics company that was one of the 14 that offered him a job.

“When I saw his CV, I saw a passion to bring about change, and that is exactly what the logistics field needs,” says his current employer, Mahesh Hariharan, CEO, Baghirathi.