Today, I have my first EVER in person meeting / informal interview with a large company. This is the first, as I graduated college during COVID, completed the entire interview process virtually, and have had the same job since. As mentioned in a few of my other posts, I am in the market for a new job as I will now be residing in Salt Lake City. This connection with the company I am interviewing with started with a connection. He used to work at the same company as me and we took a mutual customer to the headquarters in Atlanta together. We really bonded over the experience as well as our views on the world. My current company had a re-org, and he decided to go elsewhere. He had told me that this new company had been trying to get him in the door for some time, so he decided to take the jump and embark on a new journey at this company that I have a meeting with today.

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With all that in mind, and having worked with this gentleman for 2+ years, I trusted him enough to call and tell him my situition as I knew he would keep it on the down low as I was not ready for the whole company to know I was leaving. We spoke on the phone a few times about the company and he had told me that the culture is heads and tails above where I currently work and that he 100% recommends it. I was not too sure where that conversation would go, but it has turned out well so far. He reached out to the Salt Lake Branch for me and let them know that I am in the market for a new job. This as a long process and he had to be resilient about getting this set up, which I have high appreciation for. Through my friend, I was able to connect with the Salt Lake City Sales Manager. We had spoken before the Holidays and let me know that he would share my resume with his boss (branch manager) and would let me know if they saw me as a good candidate. That same day, he reached back out and said that the branch manager along with himself would like the opportunity to meet me in person after the New Year, as everyone is busy with the Holidays and closing out the fiscal year. I agreed and we decided to set the meeting date for today, January 5th.

So, here I am about an hour before this informal meeting / interview, wanting to let all my readers know that good things happen, and when they do they take time. Now that is not me saying that I will get this particular job, but I do have faith that this is all happening for a reason and if I do not get the job, I will just be one step closer to finding the most fitting job for me. This process has been long and I have had many ups and downs with my emotions, as described in the previous blog post. What I am trying to get at here is that good things do not always happen on your timeline. If your ideal timeline was a month to find a new job, what is meant for you may not come along until 5 months later. You truly just never know, but it is a good reminder to trust the process and hold / carry yourself with the same confidence no matter what. At the end of the day, a job does not determine who you are or how you act and treat others. That is all up to you and you only. It got me thinking that this whole thing is a huge lesson to me that I need to control how I am dealing with adversity and that as long as I keep my head up and persevere, the right thing will come along in its own time. You just have to accept that.

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I will keep you all updated with how this goes, but I was just having some pre-interview nerves and needed to write this to get them out. 🙂 Wish me luck!

XOXO,

Jeslee

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