For eight months, Kim Nash-Walker beat the pavement in search of work. She perused the job boards, sent out resumes, cold-called HR execs to take them for coffee, and learned how to sell herself in a minute or less at any function where employers might conceivably gather.
Nash-Walker finally landed what she calls her dream job, as a financial adviser with Wells Fargo, in July. She gives much of the credit to her church, where she found not just the skills to reinvent herself professionally, but the spiritual support for that arduous task.
The Madison Area Job Transition Program is located at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.
Additional information from the South Central Wisconsin Synod of the ELCA and Channel 3000.