Vanessa Hojda owes her fame — and possibly a summer job — to Nicolas Cage.

The second-year York psychology student was thrust into the online limelight after she accidentally emailed a picture of Nicolas Cage to a job posting rather than her resumé. Since then, she’s had a taste of celebrity herself.

“Now I Google my name and it comes up as a Washington Post article,” Hojda told the Star.

It all started with a job hunt. The unemployed 20-year-old stumbled upon a posting for a receptionist position at York University on Saturday and thought she had a good shot — she has related experience behind a desk. Hojda tailored her resumé, wrote a quick note to her potential boss, attached her resumé and clicked send.

Ten seconds later, she checked her outbox. Instead of her resumé, a beady-eyed jpeg of Nicolas Cage stared back at her, teeth bared in a maniacal grin.

Hojda had saved the picture of Cage, who she says she loves “unironically,” on her desktop after finding it online. Somehow she got the two files mixed up.

Rather than emailing an explanation, Hojda did what any self-identified web geek would do: she blogged about it.

“The first thing I thought was let’s post it on my blog, let’s laugh about it.”

She posted a screen capture of the email on her Tumblr account with an emphatic note: “OH MY GOD.”

Hojda thought the hilarity stopped there. But on Monday, Gawker published the post. It was then picked up by The Huffington Post, Yahoo! and finally, The Washington Post. In three days, she’s pulled 700 new subscribers to her blog.

“The lady at the Post made a point on how hard it is to find a job these days,” Hojda said.

The writer said she would’ve hired Hojda — the student owns up to her mistakes, has a sense of humour and is clearly web savvy.

Those qualities may have piqued the interest of some Toronto employers.

“I actually got some job offers saying, ‘Hey, would you be interested in being a social media rep?’ ” A paid gig to run a radio station’s social media presence has Hojda particularly intrigued.

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The boss-that-wasn’t from York University replied Monday saying the position had been filled, and that she never received Hojda’s resumé — just a strange photograph.

Despite the swath of job offers and fleeting fame, the student says she won’t make the same mistake twice. She deleted the picture of Cage from her desktop and saved her resumé with a new name: ThisIsYourResumeThisIsNotAPictureOfNicolasCage.doc.