Graduate seeks a nine-to-five life - graduate jobs

A graduate has used her 15 minutes of fame atop Trafalgar Square's empty fourth plinth to pitch for a PR job.

Mairead Rodden, 26, donned a sandwich board to display her vital CV statistics and played Dolly Parton's famed song lamenting the daily grind - or lack of it.

She was presumably hoping that the words "Nine to five, for service and devotion/You would think that I would deserve a fair promotion" might attract a potential boss.

And hoping that he - or she - won't be familiar with: "They let you dream just to watch them shatter/You're just a step on the boss man's ladder..."

She says she took part in artist Antony Gormley's One & Other project for purely economic and not artistic reasons.

"I don't tend to quit when I've started something," she says. "I'm going to keep on going, I'm going to find somebody and I'm going to be right for them and they're going to be right for me.

"I'm going to find that job and it's going to work out for me - because it has to."

Or in the words of the song: "Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen/Pour myself a cup of ambition, and yawn, and stretch, and try to come to life"