Timing...when you do everything right and have no results

Joe Burkland has become a bit of a folk hero around these parts. I met Joe about two and a half years ago at a networking event called PinkSlip. He'd been laid off from his business to business sales job and was looking to get going in a new job ASAP.

Fast forward to November, 2011 when Joe was quoted in the Des Moines Register  “And to think I got this full-time (job) in such a short time — just two years, two months, 29 days, three hours and 48 minutes,” Burklund jokes.

Joe did about anything and everything they recommend. Networking, volunteering, being of service, starting a blog, LinkedIn, and of course applying for jobs and improving his abilities through training at DMACC. His is what I term "the perfect search," and yet he kept plugging away, doing what he had to do to keep body and soul together, and keep on looking.

He credits the DMACC training that provides laid off workers with training in financial services call center services as the pad that launched him into his current position with Marsh USA in Des Moines. 


I take a lot from Joe's example. That securing a job is hard, but not impossible. That being open to new people, new possibilities, new strategies and new fields of interest is crucial. And probably most of all is that the search is a one day at a time process and as long as we're moving forward, we're going somewhere. No, on second thought, that the most important thing is that attitude is everything. Congratulations to Joe and all the other helpers and seekers that are doing the deal day by day. I welcome your example and your leadership!.