Baker cooks up resume cookies, biz card treats: Sweet-talk your way to a job
By Darren Garnick / The Working Stiff – Wednesday, March 3, 2010
If you were looking for a job 20 years ago, your choices for resume paper and matching envelopes would have been dizzying. You’d be confronted with a full rainbow spectrum of light blues, greys, browns, beiges and pinks – and more shades of white than you’d find at the paint shop. Today, consider yourself lucky if your office supply store stocks anything at all. At a time when most job applications are submitted electronically, pastry chef Kelly Delaney is hoping the printed resume makes one last stand. She uses food coloring ink on edible sugar paper and embeds your career highlights into an 8 -by-11-inch iced sugar dough cookie. (more…)
