So this has worked for me at my first job and the one I had before my current one, and it recently worked for my buddy when I told him about it. When I was 17 and was looking for a job during high school, I called this Mexican restaurant right before they closed for the night.

A woman answered and I asked about job opportunities, and she said to come in at 11AM the day after. So I did, and the owner came in right after me. He told me they weren’t open yet, and I said I had called on the phone and a woman had told me to come in. He sat me down and interviewed me, and I got the job.

Last year, I was desperate looking for a summer job, and i got this idea. I started to walk into restaurants and grocery stores with my resumés, telling them a woman had told me on the phone to come in for interviews.

A surprising amount of managers went along with it and interviewed me. I ended up landing another job at a restaurant I really liked using this strategy, and I never faced any consequences or word back from the places that interviewed me but didn’t hire me.