21 February

Hurray!!!  Colleen and Terry got jobs today.  

Colleen was up early and drove down to Clearfield to apply at a temp agency there.  We are talking a 30 minute drive at least from her place.  Afterwards she came to Logan.  While she was waiting to talk to me she received a phone call.  It was the temp agency offering her a position food distributor, which is very close to her home, temp to permanent.  :-)  She starts next Wednesday.  Colleen has lots of production experience, but had been doing substitute custodial work at schools.  She enjoyed the school environment and was hoping to find something permanent there.  However, the food place pays well for the area and she would have full time work and benefits in 90 days.

Terry is still very much of a little boy at heart, he likes to tease.  I can see him sitting in a classroom pulling on the braids/ponytail of the girl in front of him just cause they are there.  He has been turning in applications for shipping or purchasing positions all over the region.  He had five interviews to do in Salt Lake within a two day period a week ago.  He even went to Idaho Falls for an interview.  At the beginning of this week he had another interview with a different company in SLC.  He was offered the job this morning and accepted.  Not only that, he has received another offer since this morning but will stick with the first one.  Terry has been in our AJS program 30 days. 

Candidates do get jobs quickly if they are willing to work the program.  I have to keep reminding myself of that fact.  Some of our candidates seem like they are in the program forever and ever.  Generally that is because they are not matching their résumé and pounding the pavement.  There are some situations that take longer to get placed, but only because it is a specialized field.