Now, this is really interesting, Michael Swanson (now with Microsoft) built a cardboard cutout of himself and sent it along with his resume as the “model Microsoft employee” to Redmond. Quite an innovatie idea :-) and he did get invited for an interview with Microsoft and got selected too:-).
Check this out: http://weblogs.asp.net/mswanson/archive/2004/08/21/218216.aspx