Job hunter is labelled a ‘supervillain level genius’ after posting a fake ad for a barista role online and cherry picking the best bits from 200 cover letters for her own
- Nisa Tee, 25, from Glasgow, has been labelled a ‘supervillain level genius’
- Posted a fake job advertisement on Gumtree to get inspiration for cover letters
- She did it when she was 19 when she ‘wasn’t getting anywhere with job search’
A woman has been labelled ‘a supervillain level genius’ after posting a fake job advertisement on Gumtree to get inspiration for her own job cover letters.
Nisa Tee, 25, from Glasgow, struggled with writing a cover letter when she was younger and created a false advert for a barista job on Gumtree in order to find ‘the best cover letter’.
She decided to share the idea on Twitter on Wednesday, saying: ‘When I was 19 I had to apply for a job and couldn’t be a***d writing a cover letter.
Nisa Tee, 25, from Glasgow, struggled with writing a cover letter when she was younger and created a false advert on Gumtree in order to find ‘the best cover letter’
‘So I made a fake job ad for the job I was applying for on Gumtree and 200 people applied and I picked the best cover letter as my own.’
Nisa, who now works as an entertainer, shared an image of her inbox from 2014 after she posted the ad for a Barista/Waitress in Glasgow.
On the small screenshot, six people can be seen applying for the position and had sent Nisa emails with their CVs.
She then picked the best one and rephrased it to suit her before removing the advertisement.
She shared the idea on Twitter on Wednesday, saying: ‘When I was 19 I had to apply for a job and couldn’t be arsed writing a cover letter’
Since Nisa shared her antics on Twitter, her tweet has received lots of attention with more than 210,000 likes and hundreds of replies
She said: ‘I wasn’t getting anywhere with my job search.
‘I was skint and needed money and everyone was always like your cover letter is the most important part of your application and mine were basic as f***.
‘So I just decided to create a job ad for a job I was looking for as a barista.
‘At the time there were loads of them so I could read other people’s and see where I was going wrong. So I made my ad and forgot about it then my emails were exploding.
‘I was like “omg haha”. So then I read through them all and rephrased my fave one.
Nisa, who now works as an entertainer, shared an image of her inbox from 2014 after she posted the ad for a Barista/Waitress in Glasgow
‘Then I just used it as my own for a barista role and got the job LOL so it was a win win.’
Since Nisa shared her antics on Twitter, her tweet has received lots of attention with more than 210,000 likes and hundreds of replies.
One user said: ‘This is actually genius. Like, supervillain level genius.’
Another wrote: ‘Can’t believe I’ve wasted so much of my life writing cover letters. This is f***ing genius.’
A third commented: ‘Think smart, not hard*. Wow. That’s so f***ing smart. Holy s***.’