52 JANUARY 2023 YOUR SOURCE FOR NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS SINCE 1993 PRSRT STD Vol. 13 No. 10 MEET YOUR COUNCILMAN MEET YOUR COUNCILMAN January 2006 www.arcadianews.com U.S. POSTAGE PAID PHOENIX ARIZONA PERMIT NO. FREE Phoenix City Councilman Greg Stanton was re-elected by the citizens of District 6, which includes the Arcadia area, in September. He and his wife, Nicole, will be celebrating their first wedding anniversary this month. (Story on page 44.) A disaster can happen anywhere, to anyone. Tracy has compiled some basic disaster preparedness tips that can help all of us be ready for whatever comes our way... Page 8 Arizona leads the nation in methamphetamine usage for youth ages 12-17. Governor Janet Napolitano has been working on bold new state and local solutions for the state’s meth problem. Page 14 The Arcadia News has teamed up with the Valley Sports Ledger to provide a new sports page, focusing on the world of youth sports in Arcadia. See the very first Arcadia Sports Page! Page 63 Photo: Christine Johnson Photography ARCADIANEWSARCHIVES.COM This cover from 2006 highlighted the re-election of Greg Stanton as District 6 Councilman – a position he held from 2000 to 2009. After that, Stanton served as the state’s Deputy Attorney General for two years and the Mayor of Phoenix for six. He was elected to the US House of Representatives (District 9) in 2018 and won re-election in 2020 and 2022. Congressman Stanton and his wife Nicole live in Phoenix and have two children – and they celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary this month. W hen riding a horse, there’s an important lesson to learn about where you focus your energy. You must keep your head up and focus on where you want to go. If you look down, you may get stuck, and ultimately, you may not reach your intended destination. The same is true when looking for a job. The modern job search comes with quite a few bumps in the road. It’s happened to the best of us. You’re interviewing with one company. It seems like it’s going well. You receive positive feedback, so you stop looking for jobs and wait for the job offer to arrive. But in the end, you aren’t selected. This happened to me when interviewing for a job at a financial services company. They put me through ten rounds of interviews over six months. After going in person for interviews, the hiring manager let me know that I was the one he’d selected. But he wanted me to talk with a few more people, which elongated the process by a month or more. Given how far along we were, this was an unusual request, but I did the interviews. Since I knew I’d been selected, I began to pack my things. The job was in another city, and I needed to prepare to move. Strangely, that job offer never arrived. Instead, I received a phone call from the hiring manager. He told me he had good news and bad news. I was the winning candidate, but they had decided not to hire anyone to save money. I could tell by the lightness in the hiring manager’s tone that he had no idea what an impact this decision had on me. He wasn’t thinking about the months it would take me to find another job. He had no idea I’d already packed or that I’d stopped applying to other companies. In his mind, it was as if he’d changed his mind about ordering a dessert after dinner. But for me, it was devastating. What could I have done differently here? Well, for one, the lesson is never to stop applying for jobs until you have a written job offer in hand. Until that point, anything could happen. The company could choose to hire someone else or to hire no one at all. Second, you should try to go through job interviews without thinking about the outcome. When you focus on the outcome, you will be extremely disappointed by all the rejections. It will begin to feel as if something is wrong with you. That’s not true. The modern hiring process is broken. And don’t get too excited just because you’re a perfect fit for a role. Someone else may be a perfect fit too. So, stay focused. Keep your eyes on the end goal. When you reach it, you’ll know. Until then, keep looking forward. Keep looking forward Career Corner Career Corner Career Career expert and founder of Copeland Coaching. copelandcoaching.com BY ANGELA COPELAND

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