The delay gave enough time for the company to plot new routes, load up on personal protective equipment for drivers and visitors, create signage that encourages social distancing and add instruction to the Hot Dog High training program that would meet the moment, like how to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and how to complete daily wellness checks. Amarillo and El Paso, Texas and Flagstaff, Ariz., with her co-Hotdogger Spencer Bernhardt for company. So far she’s visited Sioux Falls and Rapid City, S.D. So, this year, the Wienermobiles would roll on - with some changes.īy August, Ms. With that in mind, the company decided that being a source of frivolity during trying times is part of its DNA. Within a couple of weeks she got the call: She’d been chosen for an in-person interview. In a cardboard box, she arranged artificial grass and a checkered blanket on top of which were her “cheesy cover letter” (wrapped in recycled Kraft Singles packaging), a “relishing résumé” (stuffed in an empty Heinz relish bottle) and a pack of paper wieners baring her face (“so they could actually picture me as a Hotdogger”). Swindall, 26, sent the Wienermobile hiring managers a literal picnic spread of her talents while paying tribute to the greater Kraft Heinz ecosystem of its parent company. Knowing she needed to stand out in her application, Ms. Swindall applied, 7,000 people applied for 12 positions, so it’s not just because it’s challenging to parallel park the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, an automobile that is also a 27-foot-long frankfurter. But piloting the most recognizable vehicle in America for a year isn’t an easy gig to land. She grew up outside Atlanta and recently finished a master’s degree in security and intelligence in, and sponsored by, the European Union.

“It was the only job I applied to,” Molly Swindall said.

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