Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, March 17, 1992 TAG: 9203170134
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: B/7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: PITTSBURGH LENGTH: Short
One billed his skills in rhyme.
"I'm creative and bold. I look good in a suit. I'm intelligent and wise. I'm handsome to boot," Joe Kosanovic said in a 32-line poem about his qualifications.
Forty people called Doug Hoerth's afternoon show on WTAE-AM and by late afternoon the station had gotten about 40 calls from interested employers.
Hoerth said job seekers who didn't get on the air would get another chance next week.
Listening in was like reading the children's book "What Do People Do All Day?" Hoerth heard from an insurance salesman, computer programmer, radio news anchor, geologist and machinist. There was an artist, a married couple who both needed jobs and a man who could fix computer disk drives "both floppy and hard."
"I've never done anything as public as this," said Regina Sanford of Penn Hills, who has degrees in management and has been searching for jobs since her family business went under in 1984.
"I had my associate degree, and they told me I was underqualified and I should get my bachelor's," she said in an interview. "Then I got my bachelor's, and suddenly I was overqualified."
Other callers had master's and graduate degrees, including an English major driving a bus and a marketing major working in a department store.
by CNB