YouTube streams cricket from India to attract job-seekers

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Source: San Jose Mercury News

What if YouTube held a job fair and nobody even bothered to turn in a resume?

It happened Sunday in San Bruno, where YouTube is headquartered and where there was plenty of food and a major sporting event to watch on big monitors.

... As Silicon Valley companies ramp up hiring, the popular and spunky website took the unorthodox approach to recruit by throwing something like a Super Bowl party for about 50 guests. The attraction was a cricket final from India, which the Google-owned YouTube streamed live around the world. And there was delicious Indian food and plenty of Kingfisher beer to wash it down.

... Company representatives said the idea was to attract people who fit the YouTube and Google mold. Their descriptions included: creative, imaginative, relaxed, hard-working, global thinkers, cool.

... But not all of the YouTube recruits were cricket fans or from the Indian subcontinent, as might have been expected. Stephen Hew, an Asian-American, is a tennis fan and Oystein Thorsen, a Norwegian doctoral student, plays handball.

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