My favorite story on persistence

I've written a stream of posts on the importance of persisting in the face of job interview rejections or life's difficulties.

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Below is my favorite story on persistence:

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Sun was a fledgling company and was fighting Apollo for a deal with Computer vision. They worked for months, then one day Vinod got a call from a Computer vision representative notifying them that they had chosen Apollo. Apparently, Computer vision had made the decision long ago. By now, there were Computer vision reps from Europe who had arrived at Apollo for technical training.

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Here's what Vinod did.

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"I took over. By 6:00 p.m. I had sent off a letter, Federal Express to 30 people at Computer vision. I said we would do anything for their business.

I didn't go home; I had my wife bring my clothes to the office, and I caught a red-eye flight to Boston.

The next morning, I was in the Computer vision lobby, making phone calls, trying to see someone. Nobody would talk to me."

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After 50 phone calls and two days of non-stop work, he got through to the VP of Sales and Marketing. Vinod threw out Apollo and signed the deal with Computer vision.

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The rest, for Sun, is history.

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Wherever you are in your job search journey, remember to keep going when things get hard.

- Kareem