I Found the Classified Ad That Got Me My Dream Job in 2000
How We Used To Get Jobs: A Newspaper Classifieds Story
In 2000, David Friedman landed a staff photography job at Polo Ralph Lauren through a classified ad in the New York Times. Decades later, he dug through his digital archives and the Times Machine to find the exact listing, reflecting on how job hunting has changed and questioning his own memories of the process.
But looking back, one of the most interesting things about it was how I found this dream job, through a relic of an earlier time: a classified listing in the newspaper.