Schattenjäger
Gabriel Knight
October 12, 2006 -- A young Yale overachiever just wanted a job on Wall Street - but his overblown video resume is triggering an Internet firestorm rivaling Paris Hilton's sex video.
Aleskey Vayner, a senior history major, envisioned himself as a perfect candidate for Wall Street power, boasting of an "insatiable appetite for success" and a credo to always "ignore losers."
Instead, he unleashed a torrent of outrage and jokes on the 'Net, where his slick video resume was derided as egotistical bunk loaded with fakery, such as a karate chop through seven red bricks and a scene supposedly portraying him bench-pressing 495 pounds.
Comments ranged from "You can't make up this s***" to "planned fakery" to "This is a joke, right?"
It prompted Vayner to yank it from his own Web site and a handful of others.
The video has made the rounds at firms including UBS, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse Group and Wachovia Corp., among others.
Vayner told Dow Jones he might sue UBS for breach of privacy because he sent his paper resume to UBS with a cover letter saying he would "consider a career" offer from the firm.
UBS spokesman Kris Kagel said the firm is reviewing the matter and that it strictly follows all privacy laws when considering its hundreds of monthly applicants. "To the extent that any policy was breached, it will be dealt with appropriately."
In the six-minute ego-mercial, Vayner narrates his own self-promotion. One segment purports to show him bench-pressing 495 pounds, with his voiceover bragging how his "physical fitness reflects mental sharpness."
Vayner also displays himself mastering ballroom rumba, skiing and tennis.
Critics say the video also fails to show any tennis opponents, just him hitting oncoming balls, but it does show him nearly falling off his skis at one point. In his rumba routine with a sexy professional dancer twirling in a micro-mini, Vayner's feet can't be seen.
http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/200...ners_bluff.html
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/027115.php
http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/tags/aleksey_vayner/
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