Job Search Success Story: Congressional Staff Assistant Jessi Calzado Esponda

CareerFuel s longterm plan includes operating a dedicated cable network. As part of our efforts, my team and I coldcalled members of Congress and asked them to write letters to the CEOs of Comcast and Time Warner. Some did. Along the way, I met Jessi CalzadoEsponda in Congressman Bobby Rush s office while awaiting a meeting. What I learned from her was remarkable and today we are very proud to share her inspirational story. An accidental escapee out of Cuba at age seven, Jessi was permanently separated from her parents and raised by her grandmother (also an immigrant) in Florida. Many years later, following a mantra of do whatever it takes Jessi showed up day after day for interviews with a member of Congress. Unexpectedly homeless during her quest for work, Jessi couch surfed and made good use of leftover food from Congressional meetings to survive. Finally she was seen and got her break, interning for two members of Congres