FINDING a job can be a long and difficult process, but career-seeker Amy Rimington came up with a novel way of getting herself known.

Shunning the usual route of sending out CVs and covering letters, she listed herself on auction website eBay for potential employers to “buy” her.

But now she is worried the idea will hamper her chances of finding work, and she has taken her listing off the computer.

Earlier in the week the 23-year-old, who works as an assistant at Lee Louise in Foregate Street, Chester, said: “I’ve been looking for a job for a year but realistically since I was 18. I’ve got a part-time job but it’s not taking me anywhere.

“I guess I just heard of all these stupid stories of people selling weird things on eBay. I sell things on eBay anyway so I started trawling through the sections for the classified ads.”

Amy, who lives in Deeside and went to Hawarden High, did business studies and media studies A-levels before beginning film studies and psychology at Yale College in Wrexham.

But she has now taken off her eBay listing and told The Chronicle: “I’m afraid it will paint me in a bad light. It’s an inventive way of looking for a job but I think people will take it as a joke and it’s not.

“I’m really serious about finding a permanent (and good) employer and so I guess I’ll just keep plodding on.”