How did you GET your job(s)?

[Greg Perkins]

I'm going do delve into my current job (which hopefully will be my job for many years to come); my job came to me, actually I came to it...which came to me...if that makes any sense. I was on a "field trip" to this engineering firm in Manchester that (apparently from what I was told in class) make measurement systems...big deal, I figured I would go, and get credit for participation. We toured the facilities and we were informed about how keeping your product inexpensive will create better competition in the market, with yours ultimately being cheapest and selling the most of. Wow, still thinking to myself "big deal", until at the end of the tour John (my boss) said "we are looking to hire one of you to work here part-time while still in school doing CAD using the Inventor software" all of a sudden lights turned on and I was extremely intrigued. I rushed home from the office, immediately typed up my resume and sent it in within an hour from the end of the tour.
Sadly, I was giving up hope. After not hearing a word about the job for almost two weeks, I had assumed they had already made their choice, and I was not chosen. This all changed one day when I strolled into my lecture hall and expected to be given another lecture on the forces that are created with chain/sprockets; was I ever wrong, John was there and he was giving us materials for a class project we were going to jointly work on. After his lecture, he called out four names, luckily, I was one of those four names. He was setting up interviews and I readily eager to get mine out of the way, was the first to be interviewed.
The interview went phenomenal, I dressed up professionally, had a leather bound portfolio, an expensive pen set, multiple copies of my resume, and some samples of my Inventor work. I was not nervous at all, pitched my pitch without hesitation, and all in the back of my head was still hoping someone did not pitch a better one than me.
Two days later.......I got the call, not the dreadful one, but the best phone call I have received to date, John said that they were comfortable with my previous training in school with CAD and that training would be unnecessary.

So all in all, I got the job I wanted, doing ridiculously cool stuff and having the best co-workers in the world (a nice paycheck is nice too ).

Click here for more information about my company.