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It feels good to be able to share opportunities with people today. Opportunities are great things. — C.C. Chapman (via Twitter)
As of Monday, I’ll be the new business analyst at Blue Interactive: The measurable marketing company (also newly awarded Agency of the Year by Marketing Interactive). There are plenty of reasons why I wanted to work for Blue, but that’s not where the story is. The story is in how I got the job:
Blue Logo
Just over a month ago, Jasmine (from school) dropped me a Facebook message asking if I had heard of any job openings. I passed her an ad I saw from Vocanic (provided by Ingrid). In a couple of weeks, Jasmine became the new business development executive at Vocanic (and is having the time of her life, I might add).
Awhile later, she dropped me another Facebook message with a job opening at Interuptive (named “Next Big Thing” at the Marketing Interactive awards), where I then met Kevin, the founder. I really liked Kevin as well as what Interuptive was doing, but unfortunately Kevin was looking for someone a little more senior. Despite that, he gave me a list of digital agencies to check out (without knowing if they were hiring) and Blue was on the list.
The rest, as they say, is history.
And that’s the beauty of it isn’t it? I didn’t give Jasmine the link with hopes she’ll reciprocate. Neither did she do it out of an obligation to reciprocate, and Kevin certainly had no compelling reason to refer me to a competitor. But they did anyway and I could not be happier to start my career at Blue. I blogged about this more than a year ago, and it still stands true today:
There is something about people engaged in this space. A natural desire for community and exchange and sharing, even if the person giving doesn’t get anything out of it.
There really is something about the space that attracts a certain type of people, and I genuinely believe that if we keep doing this and looking out for our own, we’ll weed out the trash and truly pave the way forward.
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Comments
07.31.09
I agree! I've benefited greatly in my professional life from helpful individuals and always seek opportunities to help others.
//A.J.
08.18.09
Truly inspiring. I always hear it can happen, but it’s discouraging to keep trying. I love knowing it really works this way for people. I guess in many ways it isn’t any different than it was for our parents. Just for us, we use our connections online, rather than in person.
Thanks! Great post.
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