Fish Where The Fish Are: Surprising Help Wanted Ads
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
Apostrophe Podcast Network
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
From our Season 12 Archives, one of our favourites.
This week, we take a look at the most creative “help wanted” ads in the world. We’ll talk about how IKEA recruited new workers without needing to buy an ad. How VW found new mechanics by posting ads in the most unusual place. And the amazing ways the intelligence community recruits spies and code breakers.
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| 0:00.0 | Did you know that if you subscribe to our But Wait, there's more option, you get a bonus story in every episode of Under the Influence. |
| 0:10.4 | But wait, there's more. |
| 0:12.3 | For the price of a cup of coffee every month, you get early access, so you hear every episode a full week before everybody else. |
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| 0:28.0 | Just go to Apple Podcasts and subscribe to Under the Influences, |
| 0:32.2 | but wait, there's more. |
| 0:37.7 | This is an apostrophe, podcast production. |
| 0:45.7 | You're so king in it. |
| 0:50.7 | Your feet look lighter than no no no |
| 0:57.8 | soon |
| 0:58.5 | you're not you |
| 1:03.2 | when you're hungry |
| 1:06.1 | you're a good hand |
| 1:10.4 | with all feet. |
| 1:15.6 | You're under the influence withlands of England in 1950. |
| 1:39.8 | His father raised chickens and sold the eggs for income. |
| 1:43.6 | His mother was a nanny. |
| 1:45.7 | The farmhouse had no electricity and no modern plumbing at all. |
| 1:51.0 | Bernard wasn't a diligent student, left school at the age of 15, |
| 1:54.9 | and found a job as an apprentice at a local newspaper. |
| 1:59.3 | While school assignments bored him, he did have a flair for writing. |
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