Whenever I am job searching, I look at every possible job lead as a candle in the wind. Sometimes that candle lights your way to a new position and sometimes it gets snuffed out and you have to light another one.
I lit a candle today totally by accident. Tony gave me the classified section of the local Wilmington paper on Sunday and I was trying to contact them. I couldn't find an address or phone number or even a generic email address so I looked them up in the Wilmington yellow pages. I didn't find them, but I did find a paper called the Greater Wilmington Business Journal. I looked this paper up online and decided to contact the classified advertising manager. When I was at the Plain Dealer I ran the classified advertising section.
I fully expected to get her voicemail, but she actually answered the phone. After I babbled for awhile, I found out that she is originally from Parma and lived for awhile in Middleburg Heights. Small world.
She was very nice and asked me to send her my resume, which I did...and then she said she'd like to get together for coffee in a few weeks. She also encouraged me to attend a networking event that her paper is sponsoring, so I am scheduled for that later this week.
I lit a candle today. It may get blown out, or it may light my way.
Time will tell.
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That would be cool. Good luck!
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