Developmental Store Manager

Northeast
US Army, O-2

Orion International is heads and shoulders above the rest! I was working with two other recruiting agencies when I began to use Orion. Orion kept in contact with me several times a week and was constantly emailing me job opportunities that matched my preferences. This is something that other firms only did sporadically, if at all.

My Orion recruiter was Mike Wood. Out of the dozen or so recruiters that I have worked with at other agencies over the last two months, Mike was the only one that took my request to be in New England seriously. Mike worked with me a lot outside of the typical hiring process because of my location in Oklahoma and my request to end up in the Northeast.

In the end, it was a hiring event with Wal-Mart in Philadelphia that helped me land my job. Mike and Michele Zambrano prepared me with about 30 sample questions that the interviewers might ask. They also held a Webinar to discuss the position and keys to success in the interview. When I got to the interview, every question asked had already been given to me by Michele.

Thanks to that hiring event, I will be a Developmental Store Manager at Wal-Mart. In terms of location (New England), responsibility (managing up to 600 people) and pay (likely six figures with bonus), it is FAR, FAR beyond anything I ever expected coming out of the Army after only three years.