defamation trial to stimulate interest in his LinkedIn job posting. Shawn Barnes, who works as a recruiter at GTN Technical Staffing and Consulting, crafted a fake post-trial “transcript” between the two actors that he posted to the site Tuesday to advertise a data analyst role. “BOMBSHELL,” Barnes wrote. “The conversation between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had at the end of the trial has been leaked!”The recruiter then imagined Heard repeatedly asking Depp to look at her, before she asked: “Do you still love me, Johnny?”In the faux transcript, Depp replied: “Amber, this might be the last time we ever speak, so please listen to me very carefully.
If you know of a Data Analyst with experience in Python, SQL, A/B testing and Excel, you absolutely need to call Shawn Barnes with GTN Technical Staffing.
He is the best!”As of lunchtime Wednesday, the job posting has clocked a whopping 223,000 likes. Many LinkedIn users responded to Barnes’ post, praising him for the creative way he attracted interest in the data analyst position. “One of the most captivating employee search posts I’ve ever seen!” one tickled reader responded. “Genius recruitment strategy,” a second LinkedIn user swooned, while others described Barnes as “brilliant,” “clever” and “hilarious.”However, not everyone found Barnes’ post amusing, with some saying it was distasteful to use the trial — in which Heard and Depp leveled abuse allegations against each other — as fodder for attention.
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