A Message From Our President: You are Always on a Job Interview
It’s true. You are always on a job interview. I don’t mean the “old school” job interview, in a small office with someone asking you questions. I mean the entrepreneur’s interview. The one you have with everyone you meet. Who’s to say the lovely lady you met at the grocery store or the businessman you approached at the networking event won’t be your best client six months from now?
Where have you found your best clients? Sometimes, it’s not where you might think.
Susan Kousek, of Balanced Spaces, met a new client standing in line to return a computer cable at MicroCenter. “I started talking to the woman behind me. When she found out I was a professional organizer (we had been talking about finding receipts to return items), she hired me to help her set up the office in her soon-to-open restaurant.”
Cris Sgrott-Wheedleton, of Organizing Maniacs, got a client at the gas station. “She noticed my Hire an Organizer license plate holder.”
Terri Fischer, of Consider It Done, was talking with a woman in a friend’s swimming pool. ”When she discovered that we had both been at the same camping event, she hired me to organize her camping gear.”
Andrea Hancock, of B Dexterous, said “my husband’s co-worker complimented him on his whipping the office into organized shape. During the conversation, he mentioned that I do this for a living. Later, I met her at a company event. She got my card and hired me for a few sessions to get her paper in order.”
These examples should be lessons to us all. You never know where your next job interview will be conducted. Give the same unique and superior level of service to everyone you meet, all the time.
If you’d like to contact our President, you can email her at president@dcorganizers.org.
