WorkWise BlogTip: Drip, drip, drip

Shannon Ingram (shannoningram.com) had spent three years caring for her elderly parents. It was early 2008 and she was a church volunteer while job hunting.

"I gave a talk at a spiritual business network meeting and mentioned I was looking for a job," Ingram says. "A woman suggested I apply for a job at her company, which turned out to be headquartered in the building next door to the church."

She teamed with her referral source and landed an interview with the Marketing senior vp. The following day she noticed his car sitting outside of the church’s office window. She launched a campaign.

"Every day when he drove in," she explains, "I'd wait a couple of minutes and then call him." Her "drip, drip, drip" method worked, and she was hired. Shortly thereafter, when her new boss mentioned her excellent timing, she 'fessed up, reporting that she’d been " 'a stalker,' watching him come and go and assessing the best times to call."

Stepping up your campaign after the interview sets your apart from all of the others who just send a thank-you note and/or make a call.

Two years later the two still chuckle about it.

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