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The 19-year-old who offered to swap a sign for work this week has potentially gained a new job for his quirky marketing efforts.

Cameron Walker stood at the intersection of 11th Avenue and Cameron Rd for several hours on Tuesday holding a cardboard sign saying "will swap sign for job".

Yesterday he cycled Hewletts Rd at Mount Maunganui while holding on to the sign in another desperate attempt to find work.

It worked.

"I was biking along and holding the sign out and the guy from Mr Shelf came along," Cameron said. "He said, 'Do you want to come and have a shot this afternoon', so I did."

Cameron spent a few hours labouring in the Mr Shelf workshop and will return on Monday to possibly make something of it.

"I'm just so stoked," he said. 

Cameron featured in Thursday's Bay of Plenty Times  for his original efforts. He got  attention and business cards.

"I had a bit of interest. I went for interviews but still hadn't got a job," he said.

"I'm rapt they gave me the time though. They said they didn't have jobs at the moment but they put me on waiting lists."

Businesses also contacted the Bay of Plenty Times asking how to get in touch with Cameron and offer him work but he  had not heard from them yesterday.

Cameron chose to take a different approach to  job hunting after receiving the "cold shoulder" wherever he took his CV, he said.

He is studying business and management at Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and used his marketing knowledge to come up with the idea of advertising himself at busy intersections.

Cameron's situation to find work was  so dire, he said he would give up his studies just to have a fulltime job.