Updates, Updates, Updates!!

So, quite a bit has happened since the last post. I did a phone interview with the Church to assess my managerial abilities. Once that was done, I got a call from HR that my assessment turned out very well, and that they wanted to know if I could fly to California for an interview for the Oakland position. I told them that would work, but it would have to be the end of the next week (this would be the week after I graduated and my last week of work). It was a 4 hour interview, so I didn't have time to attempt to do any other job searching or interviewing while I was there. I met with the FM, and we interviewed for about an hour and then spent the rest of the time either at lunch or walking around touring the properties that I would be in charge of as the Assistant FM portion of the position I was applying for. As we ended the day, the FM told me that if the decision were up to him I would have an offer in a few days, but that he wanted me to get a chance to meet with the Regional Manager. I came back, and arranged to meet with the Regional Manager the following week since he would be in SLC for some training. I did this, and he told me that there was one other person under consideration, but that I had a pretty good chance.

The next day (Thursday) I received a phone call from HR in the morning, and they said that I was being given an offer, and that she had never seen something like this before. She said that the FM and RFM were so concerned about me coming and not being able to live there, and they really wanted me to come, that they increased the offer from what I was originally told, to about $8,000 more per year than what was originally discussed as the top of the offer range.

So, I have accepted an offer to work for the Church. I will be the Event Supervisor and Assistant Facility Manager at Oakland Temple Hill. I started training this last Monday at the Conference Center with the Events Department. This training is basically focusing on the different processes that they go through, and giving me an opportunity to meet with several other departments that play a part in an Event being put on or happening. I actually have tomorrow (Friday) off as well as Monday because of the holiday and almost no one working on Friday in the department. I will be going in on Saturday for an actual event, so I will get to see one of the event coordinators in action.

It has been a lot of interesting training, and I have actually really enjoyed it, especially the last couple of days. It has been really interesting to meet with the different trades, even if I might not be using all of it. I am really getting excited about getting to California, and a little nervous as well.

Just to make sure that no one thinks this was a decision that didn't involve any prayer, I will say that we definitely prayed and fasted about this decision as well. However, just being on the site prior to my interview I felt really good about being there.