Homeless Resume: Caring Teen Changes Homeless Man’s Life After Tweeting One Of His Hand-Written Resumes

A homeless man’s resume got a lot of exposure after a teen tweeted it in an effort to help him out. ABC News reports that it definitely worked for the 23-year-old man who so happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Eighteen-year-old Aaron O’Dwyer noticed a homeless man named Jordan Lockett sitting on the street while on his way out of a job interview on Tuesday. O’Dwyer of Liverpool, England, tells ABC News that he “couldn’t just walk past him.” He said it was obvious the young man wasn’t on drugs and that he was “just a normal lad.”

The homeless man’s resume got posted to O’Dwyer’s Twitter account after he took one of Lockett’s 15-to-20 handwritten resumes he had in his hand. They were on loose-leaf paper.

O’Dwyer feels very rewarded in his effort now that Lockett’s resume is getting a large response from managers in the area.

“It took me 16 seconds to take the resume and post it on Twitter. That’s all it took to get him off the streets. It’s quite rewarding for myself. I feel good about it.”

He describes how he encountered Lockett on the street that fateful day.

“I walked up to him and asked if he wanted some money and I gave him some change. I noticed in his hand he had about 15 to 20 handwritten resumes and he insisted I took one.

“It was quite a sad read and, obviously, a cry for help.”

Part of what the homeless man’s resume read let people know about his circumstances. He didn’t sugarcoat anything.

“Need work. Need help. Seriously lost.

“I’m so sick of wasting away now I’m always being told to go to homeless centres [sic] but there [sic] not helping.

“I write my C.Vs like this because I don’t have anything to put on it.”

O’Dwyer shares that Lockett left school when he was 13 or 14 to pursue mechanical training on motorbikes. Since he dropped out of school with no skills or grades, universities rejected him.

When O’Dwyer tweeted the homeless resume, it received over 3,000 re-tweets and a plethora of job offers.

O’Dwyer caught up with Lockett’s brother — Kyle Ravenscroft — who’s updated him on how things have turned around for the man who was on the streets just days before. He said that he’s currently on a trial shift at a bar, and that people are contacting him about jobs for his brother. Ravenscroft adds that Lockett has also found a place to stay and that he plans to stay in touch with him.

[Image via Aaron O’Dwyer/Twitter]