Jobseeker pitches at station, lands interview in three hours and job by the end of the week

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A job seeker managed to grab an interview and land a new job after setting up his own pop-up stand in central London. Haider Malik, 24, headed to Canary Wharf in the early hours of the morning on November 2 in hopes of finding a job in banking and finance.

He holds a first-class degree in Banking & Finance from Middlesex University but has struggled to find a job since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic - he felt he couldn't properly showcase his personality in Zoom interviews. Read more: Police release CCTV image of man they want to speak to in connection with burglaries in which blind and bedbound people were targeted Malik was inspired by his father, Mehmood, 67, a retired cab driver who migrated from Pakistan as a teenager.