Career Bull

Taking a Step

// November 8th, 2009 // Uncategorized

Riding in a airplane isn’t the typical place to find your dream job. Who would have thought a flight to North Carolina would have landed George an interview with the CEO of one of Raleigh’s largest commercial real estate companies?

George just graduated from Ohio State majoring in Real Estate and Urban Analysis, but didn’t have much luck landing a job in the industry right out of college. He knew he wanted to live in the Carolina’s and after doing some interviews he took a job with a staffing company in Raleigh. George is great with people, and loved the fulfilment when he was able to land people a job, but the work was sometimes grueling and it wasn’t taking him where he ultimately wanted.

After visiting home for a weekend he flew back to Raleigh on semi-empy Sunday flight. There was a beautiful women sitting by him and so he decided to strike up a conversation with her. She thought he was hitting on her, and she promptly told him she was married. He said, “Oh what does your husband do?” Turns out he runs a big real estate firm in the area, and George asked for his contact information.

One step later George met with the owner, had a tour around the office, and was told the company was not hiring anytime soon. Sure they weren’t looking to hire someone, but George asked for a job anyways. After telling the owner how much he wanted the job and how hard he would work, there was suddenly an opening.

Hats off to you George and your continued success. Take a step, what’s the worst that can happen?