Joshua Persky, an out-of-work investment banker, has been hunting for a job on Wall Street for more than six months. Recently he got so frustrated he decided to get a little creative.

Last week, Mr. Persky, 48, stood on Park Avenue, handing out résumés to passers-by and wearing a sandwich board that said, "Experienced M.I.T. Grad for Hire." The sign included his name and contact information.

He picked a busy spot, with several hundred people passing him every hour. And he did not look bitter or angry standing in the summer heat. Instead, he was smiling and standing tall, wearing his best suit under the placards.

A few looked and snickered when they passed by him, but most paid no attention. Some gave him sympathetic looks. A few even took a résumé.But these days, jobs on Wall Street are scarce — and getting more so. Worldwide, banks and securities firms have cut more than 80,000 jobs. Mr. Persky worked at Houlihan Lokey for two years, but when that firm began to cut back last December, he said, his contract was not renewed.

Still, a couple of young brokers who passed Mr. Persky said they thought his unorthodox methods would pay off. One said Mr. Persky had a "first mover’s advantage" and that "all this press coverage will probably get him a job." His colleague agreed, saying, "Yeah, there is no question that it is going to work."

It certainly generated some attention. Mr. Persky was interviewed by many major news outlets and appeared on Fox and MSNBC. His story went global — "I get e-mails saying I am famous in Korea," he said. He recently did a radio program that aired in Bogotá, Colombia, and even appeared on the cover of a financial magazine in Greece.

"It was an amazing experience" Mr. Persky said this week. "I went to the corner of 50th and Park Avenue to hand out some résumés, and overnight I became world-famous.""The outpouring of interest and support was overwhelming — but I still need a job," he said.

Mr. Persky has had some luck on that front. He recently had one interview with a boutique investment bank and has another one lined up at a hedge fund. M.I.T. alumni have contacted Mr. Persky and have tried to help him in his job search. One alumnus said that if he would move to Denver that he could probably find a place for him.

So things are looking a bit brighter for Mr. Persky — but nothing solid yet. Nevertheless, he has received hundreds of e-mail messages and phone calls from well-wishers and companies wanting to find out more about him, which puts him in a better position than where he started.

It hasn’t been all roses, though.

By broadcasting his phone number and contact information around the world he has drawn attention from some nasty people. "I got some late-night phone calls from some young, probably investment banking analysts or associates, probably drunk, screaming obscenities and telling me to give my degree back," Mr. Persky said. "There were probably several dozen of those.""The only seriously negative one was a fellow who walked up to me in the street and said, There are people at M.I.T. that don’t like what you are doing — they don’t like the fact that M.I.T. is on your sign." It was not clear if the man was a fellow M.I.T. alumnus.

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Mr. Persky says he has not received any negative e-mail or phone calls from MIT alumni; rather, he says, "it is quite the opposite." In fact, he just received a phone call from the institute’s entrepreneurs club to speak to the group about his experience.

But time is ticking down for Mr. Persky. He said last week that if he did not find a job within a month he would pack up and move to his wife’s hometown, Omaha, to "start a new life." His wife, Cynthia, left last week with their two children, leaving Mr. Persky in New York to interview, while he stays with a friend. "If I don’t have anything by early August," he said, "I guess I will have to book a ticket to Omaha."

 

喬舒亞·伯斯基（Joshua Persky）是一位失業的投資銀行員工，他已失業六個多月，一直在華爾街找工作。最近，他覺得非常沮喪，于是決定來一點有創意的行動。

上周，48歲的伯斯基先生站在派克大街上，向過路行人發送簡歷，并且，他還背著一個三明治的大字報，上面寫著“麻省理工學院畢業，經驗豐富。”還有他的姓名和聯系方式。

他挑選了一個繁忙地帶，每小時有好幾百人經過他身邊。而且，在夏日的陽光下，他看上去一點也不痛苦或憤怒。相反，他面帶微笑，站得筆直，背著布告牌，還穿著他最好的一套衣服。

有些人從他身邊過的時候看到了他，偷偷笑了，但大部分人根本就沒有注意到他，有些人同情的看了他一眼，有的人甚至要了他的簡歷。但是，這些日子以來，華爾街的工作機會非常稀少——而且變得越來越少。全世界范圍內的銀行和證券公司已經削減了8萬個員工。伯斯基先生在侯利翰·洛基（Houlihan Lokey）公司工作有兩年了，但他說，去年12月公司開始削減員工，他沒能繼續和公司續約。

兩個從伯斯基先生身邊經過的經紀人說，他們認為，伯斯基先生這種標新立異的方式會有所斬獲的，其中一個說，伯斯基先生有“主動出擊的優勢”，而且“媒體報道的推波助瀾的作用可能會讓他得到一份工作。”另一人經紀人表示同意，說：“是的，毫無疑問，這種方式會起作用的。”

當然，伯斯基先生引起了人們的一些注意，有很多大新聞媒體對他進行了采訪，他還出現在福克斯電視臺和MSNBC。他的事情在全球范圍內散播開來——他說：“我收到電子郵件說，我在韓國也出名了”。他最近還在哥倫比亞的波哥大做了一個廣播節目，甚至還出現在希臘一個財經雜志的封面上。

伯斯基先生說：“這真是難忘的經歷，我去了第50大街和派克大道，給人們分發簡歷，然后我便一夜成名了。”他還說：“人們向我表示了極大的興趣和支持——但是，我需要的是一份工作。”

伯斯基先生在這方面還比較走運，最近有一家小型專業投資銀行對他進行了面試，他還要去一家對沖基金應聘，一位麻省的校友聯系了他，準備幫助他找工作，還有一位校友說，如果他愿意去丹佛的話，就有可能得到一份工作。

所以，對伯斯基先生來說，事情有了好轉——但是一切還不固定。不管怎樣，他收到了很多電子郵件和電話，人們向他表示祝福，一些公司也給了他面試的機會，這些使得他目前的狀況比開始時要好得多了。

可是，前景并非一片光明。

現在，人們都知道了他的電話和聯系方式，這也使得一些不懷好意的人開始注意他。伯斯基先生說：“我深夜會接到一些年輕人的電話，這些人也許是投資銀行分析師或他們的同事，他們喝醉了，向我破口大罵，而且讓我把文憑交還回去。這樣的電話有好幾十個。”“最難堪的一件事是，有個家伙在街上向我走過來，說‘麻省有些人不喜歡你做的事，他們不喜歡你把麻省寫在這個大廣告牌上。’” 我不清楚這個人是不是麻省的校友。

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伯斯基先生說，他沒有從麻省校友那兒收到惡意的電子郵件和電話；而且，他說“情況恰恰相反”。實際上，他接到一個學院企業家俱樂部打給他的電話，并且詢問了他的有關經歷。

但是對伯斯基先生來說，事情沒有什么進展，上周，他說，如果他在一個月內找不到工作的話，就會打包裹回他妻子的老家，內布加斯加州的奧馬哈，去“開始新的生活”。他的妻子上周已經帶著他的兩個孩子先回去了，留下伯斯基先生一人在紐約面試，他和他的朋友住在一起。他說：“如果到八月初還找不到工作的話，我想，我會訂張去奧馬哈的票了。”

 

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