Angie Burton, creator of Application Bling, checks for orders on her new website.Angie Burton never wanted a small business.
She just wanted her daughter to get a job.
Nothing panned out as her teenager filled out job application after job application in the Chattanooga area. Burton could just imagine the applications getting lost in huge piles of papers on managers’ desks. She needed a way for her daughter’s application to stand out.
“A resume you put a cover letter with, but what do you do with a job application?” she asked.
A piece of paper can’t be decked out with spinning chains or flashy pinky rings, but Burton found a way to give the applications some bling. She slapped a roughly two-square-inch removable, restickable sticker with bright colors and her daughter’s qualifications on a few applications. Within a week, the teen had landed a job.