Viral Photo Of Homeless Man Handing Out Resume Brings Him Job Offers

An unemployed homeless man in Silicon Valley, California, has been flooded with more than 200 job offers after a tweet that showed him standing on a street corner with a sign that read "Homeless hungry 4 success take a resume” went viral.

“Google reached out to me,” David Casarez told New York Post. “A product manager from Bitcoin.com was wondering if I could work remotely or if I want to relocate to Tokyo.” He also thanked everyone for helping him out through his newly created Twitter account.

Casarez has a bachelor’s in management information systems from Texas A&M University. He used to work as a web developer at General Motors in Austin. He left the job and came to Silicon Valley to pursue the dream of his own tech startup.

He was living in his car till a month ago when it was repossessed. He soon ran out of cash and started living in the park. On Friday, dressed “to be presentable to future employers," he set out with the sign and a FedEx envelope filled with his resumes.

“It was basically a make-or-break moment. I wanted to keep my head up high, keep looking forward and see what opportunity would come next,” he said. “I was thinking, you know, like this was like my last stop. If this didn’t work, I’d go back home and give up on my dream.”

The 26-year-old was handing out the resume to motorists in Mountain View, California, where Google is headquartered, hoping to make a job connection.

He was spotted by Jasmine Scofield, who shared the man's picture on Twitter on July 27. Since then, it has been retweeted more than 137,000 times and liked more than 220,000 times.

“Today I saw this young homeless man asking for people to take a resume rather than asking for money,” she wrote on the tweet.

"He came to Silicon Valley with a dream to be successful in tech and has a lot to offer the community. He's sleeping in parks and still trying to get freelance work, interviews, and applications in," Scofield said in another tweet.

“Google, Netflix, LinkedIn, and many other companies have already reached out," Scofield posted Saturday morning.

"I figured I have to know somebody who knows somebody. So I figured I could post it on Facebook and Twitter," Scofield told CNN. "If I were in that position, I'd want somebody to help me.”

"In my experience, it's a really cutthroat community to be a part of if you don't come here with something already guaranteed or a pre-established network of resources," she added.

A friend of Casarez from college reached out to him on Twitter and praised him for his determination "to chase his dream in California."

"He seemed to have a really positive outlook on the situation he's in. He's extremely driven and understands he may have miscalculated on what it takes to make it out here in Silicon Valley," Scofield said. "He's determined to fight, hustle and follow the dream he came out here to chase. He seems to know a lot about tech and a lot about the industry. On paper, it seems he's set up for success."