Response to Bryan Mortensen's blog

I read Bryan Mortensen’s blog entitled “Is job-hunting success more about who you know or what you know?”. I definitely agree with his analogy and think it applies perfectly to the job hunting scenario. However, the only thing I would add to is his comment about, “you can land a job with just a cake.” He is referring to the idea that you don’t need frosting (or in other words you do not need to know someone) to get a job. I agree, but I would add the fact that you might have to make a lot of cakes before you get someone to accept one without any frosting on it. When job hunting, it may take you a long time to find someone that will hire you that you are a complete stranger to. It will most likely take you a few tries to get a job when you don’t know anyone to give you a head start. I have had personal experience recently with this situation. Since I am new to Cache Valley I am without “frosting” whereas in Spanish Fork I knew plenty of people and could easily find a job. It is just going to take me a few tries of baking a frosting-less cake before someone realizes that I actually make some pretty dang good tasting cake