So... Minneapolis, huh?

Minneapolis has been word around our house. After spending the last two months filling out applications and no one contacting us, Jordan's employer finally hooked us up! Jordan does some actuarial work for a professor here at BYU, and he meets with him regularly. One day Jordan goes in, and Dr. Tolley explains that a VP from the insurance company Allianz will be comign to BYU to give an info session, and that he wanted to a list of a couple really great students to give a short interview to afterwards. Dr. Tolley picked two students, one of them being Jordan!

So last Thursday after the info session this guy pulls Jordan aside and gives him a short, informal interview and then explains that he'll forward Jordan's resume on to HR who will interview him, and if that goes well they'll fly him into Minneapolis for further interviewing and to get a feel for the company! Basically, the VP said that he would make sure that Jordan's resume gets pushed along. The NEXT DAY we got an email from HR at Allianz who scheduled an interview for a week later.

Well, yesterday was his HR interview and it certainly went well enough that Jordan's been scheduled for two more phone interviews NEXT Thursday with various team leaders. We both thought he'd be flown to Minneapolis at this point, but hey, we're definatey not complaining! Two more interviews! This is a such a great opprotunity for Jordan, and for our family.

We're pretty sad about not hearing anything from Hartford yet. We were so looking forward to living near Kelly and Braden. However, since hearing about Minneapolis things have just felt right. It really does sound like a great place for us. We were really worried that we'd be sent somewhere unbearably hot, and there isn't a place much colder than Minnesoda (excluding Alaska, of course). They have a moderately sized opera company, which would be great for me to explore. Jordan really seems to like the company and the work looks interesting to him.

Of course, nothing is for sure yet. We're still in the interview process, and it might actually be pretty early to hear from the other companies we've put applications into. If nothing else, I think it's exciting and important that Jordan goes through this process.

So cross you fingers, we hope that in the next month we'll have more good news about jobs!!!