An unemployed graduate has landed a job after unfurling a giant CV from Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth.

Former Grey Court School pupil Alex Kearns, 23, won a one-hour slot on the plinth as part of sculptor Antony Gormley’s One and Other Project on July 26.

Scratching around for ideas to fill his time, he came up with the stunt and, after his picture was published in some free London newspapers, the job offers came rolling in.

He is now working as a sales executive at the International Business Development Group, based in central London.

He said: “I thought I would play on the whole graduate unemployment thing.

“Everyone was saying 2009 was going to be the hardest year. I had some inkling, but hoped I would land on my feet. After two months of being unemployed, I realised maybe not.”

Mr Kearns, from Latchmere Road, Kingston, graduated with a French and Italian degree from Swansea University this year but after numerous rejections, including for a bar job at O’Neills in Kingston, he began to get desperate.

His father Hugh Kearns helped him make his giant CV, which listed his email address and said one of his hobbies and interests was “plinth dwelling”.

He also raised a placard, which read “Save a graduate. Give me a job”.

In a tribute to Latchmere School, which he attended 12 years ago, he took pupils’ school work on to the plinth and read their names aloud.

Pupils had entered a Mayor of London competition to design a sculpture for the empty plinth and Mr Kearns decided to take three of the commended papier mache creations with him. It was so windy up there they had to be anchored down.

Mr Kearns, who went to Grey Court secondary school in Ham after missing out on a place at Tiffin Boys’ School, said he plans to stay living with his parents until he earns a higher wage.

His father praised his son’s initiative. He said: “I’m very proud of him. It was his idea. Getting it off the ground and it not going wrong was a team effort, but he executed it extremely well.”