Jackie on our staff gave us her resignation notice. She is
moving on to other life adventures. We need another part-time staff member.
Using our monthly newsletter to our local frequent buyers members we announced
the job opening. Within four hours we had five responses of interest, four by
return E-mail and one by phone. Nancy and I knew that we could not eliminate
any one of them with the information we had at hand so we agreed to interview
each candidate.
Do we really want to eliminate an enthusiastic college
student whose major focus is a polar opposite from retail store clerk? Can we
say for certain that the teacher who is retiring within the month is too old or
too anything to be eliminated from consideration? What about the
twenty-something college graduate who is trying to figure out what life holds
next? Any one of these, or the others not described here, could be a very good
fit for us when we look past our stereotypes.
We will take the time to interview each candidate. By paying
close attention, and doing our homework on each one, hopefully we will find the
best fit for this ministry-which-is-the-store.
As they used to say in old radio (that communication device
without pictures to which you could only listen and not respond) broadcasts
(the messages were sent wirelessly through analog signals from single point
signal towers), “Stay tuned.”
