After sending out more than 1,000 job applications without so much as a nibble, Florida college grad Sam Rabinowitz took matters into his own hands — and cruised Wall Street carrying a placard begging for a chance.
“Tried LinkedIn. Tried Email. Now Trying Wall Street. Looking for a Finance/Trading Internship or Entry-Level Position. Dedicated. Hungry. Ready to Work,” the 25-year-old’s sign read as he recently marched in front of the New York Stock Exchange at lunchtime.
“I was laying in bed one day and I came up with the bright idea of carrying a sign around Wall Street, asking for a job. And I made it happen,” Rabinowitz told The Post from his Boca Raton home this week.
The Sept. 2 stunt was born of desperation.
Since graduating from Florida Atlantic University in May 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in finance, Rabinowitz has been applying for positions across the country, without luck.
“I even tried to apply for all these internships at JP Morgan, Citibank,” said Rabinowitz, whose dream is to do “anything related to the stock market.”
“I had all these feelings of fear, anxiety and depression about not knowing what the future holds,” Rabinowitz said, adding he was “running out of money.”
So while visiting New York for a wedding over Labor Day weekend, he decided to put himself directly in the path of the people who could hire him – sign in hand.
It worked.
A partner at an IPO company noticed his sign, waved him over and struck up conversation.
“He mentioned that somebody once gave him a chance, and he saw a great story in me,” Rabinowitz recalled.
The man even invited him into the office, which was “everything I ever dreamed of, with all the computer screens and stats,” the aspiring trader gushed.
“I met his partner and we had a great conversation, a great interview, and I felt so good about it. In my head I was like, ‘I got the job!’ but I haven’t heard back from them,” said Rabinowitz, who declined to provide the name of the company so as to not “jeopardize the opportunity.”
“But I will get that job,” he vowed.
Rabinowitz documented the day’s events in Instagram videos that have amassed over 250,000 views.
The stunt comes as the U.S. job market has weakened in recent months, with employers adding 22,000 jobs in July, down from 73,000 jobs the month before and far below the expected 75,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said last week.
