In December 2007, I traveled to New Zealand , spent three weeks there and loved it so much that after I returned home I decided to look for a job there. I applied for a job with Intergen, a young upcoming company that seemed to be a good fit for me. After several phone interviews they offered me a job and I accepted; the next step was to apply for a work visa.

While waiting for my visa application to be processed, I got a call from a recruiter at salesforce.com and decided to check it out just in case my visa didn’t come through. The recruiter set up an interview for me and encouraged me to learn as much as I could about the company, which I immediately set out to do. When I read about the 1/1/1 model and the company’s commitment to becoming green certified I was really excited about the possibility of having found a corporate entity that I could really feel good about being part of. Social and environmental responsibility are very important issues to me.

I have worked in the corporate world for most of my career and have been hoping to find a way to make a positive impact in both my community and the environment through my job (and if I couldn’t find a way to do that I would go after the adventure of living and working in New Zealand ). Salesforce.com seemed as though it might provide that opportunity for responsible corporate citizenship. After two interviews with salesforce.com, I was offered a job; that same day I received my passport back from the New Zealand embassy with a 3 year work visa stamped in it.

Wow, what a choice I had to make…. After deliberating for several days, I decided that salesforce.com was where I really wanted to be because the company values are so much in line with my personal values. And I don’t regret that choice at all.