I've interviewed a fair few people over the years for developer roles. Resumes are always boring to read and it's often difficult to make the decision to get someone in for an interview based on some bullet points and a bunch of corporate-waffle.

Your idea is bloody brilliant!

If I was going over resumes and someone sent in a cake I would think:

1. They really want the job. The cake cost money and/or time to get together.
2. They think different/smart. They know how to get someone's attention.
3. They are not scared to take a chance.
4. They're confident in their own skills.

I'd definitely take a gamble on an interview with them.

A website would also be very, very good. Particularly for developers as it would presumably have some work examples and give me something more to go on than the resume.

I like both ideas, and I think they would appeal to hiring managers and job seekers alike. My concern is how to turn this into a profitable business. It's tough when your target market, by definition, has little disposable income to spend. Sure, there are exceptions, but most job seekers aren't going to have a lot to spend. As such, you will need to keep your prices down, and that means you will need a lot of clients.

I think the website idea has more potential than the cake idea. You could create a template and get a job seeker's website up and running with very little effort (after the initial time investment). This will allow you to provide great service at a low cost, and potentially get a lot of people.

I'm less excited about the cake idea for a few reasons.

• I think the "per client" cost of doing this will be a bit higher. With the website, with each new site you set up, the cost per site goes down. With the cake resumes, it's not the same.

• If you want to submit the website to 50 open positions, it costs roughly the same as submitting it to one. For the cakes, however, it costs 50 times as much.

• As a hiring manager, I would find it awesome to receive a cake resume for an open position (for many of the same reasons that steveclaridge provided). However, I would find it annoying to receive more than just a few of these. See, the creativity and ingenuity wears off very quickly.

Anyway, I like the idea, especially if you put together a suite of 20-30 ways to creatively deliver a resume. Just make sure you keep them low cost and make sure you are prepared to create and handle a large client list.

In some juristictions it's ilegal to charge jobseekers for theri job search

i am sorry but i am just want to say i am a bit conservative. I run a recruitment marketplace and my experience with hiring managers in most large companies is that they are conservative folks who like to have CVs with their 'i's dotted and 't's crossed. You may have better luck in smaller more creative companies but that would mean your market may be a little small. hope this helps.