The billboard on Merrion Road in Dublin has cost Mr Mac An Iomaire €2000 for 2 weeks.
The ad contains a picture of the 26-year-old marketing graduate facing a number of famous landmarks from Sydney, London and New York with the message: "Save me from emigration."
His ad has struck a chord across Ireland at a time when about 50,000 citizens, many of them young graduates, are expected to leave this year for work abroad. There are still up to 400,000 jobless workers in Ireland due to the property crash and the country's fiscal crisis.
Mac An Iomaire said he came up with the idea after being unemployed for eight months after a year in Australia.
"I had a good bit of money saved when I came home from Australia but I was managing to live on jobseeker's allowance. I gave it a week of hard thinking to come up with the concept and nothing was going to stop me then," he said.
Writing on his Facebook page he explained why he had decided to go to such lengths.
"Having tried and failed for months and exhausted all traditional job hunting avenues, I have decided to have one last throw of the dice to remain in Ireland before I am forced to look elsewhere for work and develop myself professionally," he said.
He added that he hoped to stay in Ireland and "be part of this country's recovery".
An unorthodox way of catching the attention of prospective employers, but apparently the response has been great.
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