Brighton-based Total Recruitment has been working with ITV's Public Property to try to find work for one of the interactive show's contestants.
Public Property follows the lives of six people on television and online for a period of three months. The audience, watching each weekday at 5pm and visiting the show's web site, cast votes to decide what activities the participants should do next.
Brighton couple Katy Jackson and Paul Warman have been taking part and the voting viewers told Katy to get a job. She was given a career interview by Total Recruitment director Aaron Clarke.
He said: "As a new company, the opportunity to get on national television and showcase our services was too good to miss. The show attracts up to four million viewers on a daily basis and that kind of exposure is invaluable to us."
Katy said the informal interview was the best thing that has happened to her so far in the show. She added: "I've always had ambitions to follow my in my father's footsteps with an acting career but know that I have to have an alternative vocation considering that around 95 per cent of professional actors are unemployed.
"The important thing for me, as well as a decent salary, is to be around interesting, humorous people. I've realised that temping jobs in offices could introduce me to loads of different professionals who I'll hopefully get on well with."
Total Recruitment sent Katy for a week's experience as a hotel reception-ist with the Hickstead Hotel.
Aaron said: "The feedback from the hotel has been good. They said they would be pleased to hear from Katy at the end of the show if, on the basis of her performance during the trial, she was interested in more work."
Grant Bremner, interactive manager for Pearson Television Enterprises which built the show's web site, said: "Public Property is a fantastic opportunity to really demonstrate to consumers the potential of combining the internet with a television broadcast. For years, we have been interacting with TV programmes by simply shouting out answers to quiz shows. Now the audience can feel part of the show and really change someone's life with the click of a mouse button."
Viewers can see Katy's recruitment experiences on television this week and vote for her next job step.
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